Animal Tracking Is Getting a Makeover
This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine.
Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to scientists lurking nearby. Namibia’s brown hyenas are the opposite. These roughly one-meter-long mammals—more closely related to mongooses than dogs—live in small clans but usually travel and scavenge alone.