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 ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers are still working to get more detailed information to better combat ...

Researchers developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking which they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. They have thus taken an important step ...

I’ve always had an interest in animal tracks, but that got kicked up a notch recently when I ran across an apparent panther print. I say apparent because, as is often the case, part of it was smudged, ...

One winter several years ago, I conducted one of my weekend retreats at a conference center in western Massachusetts. When I arrived, I heard about another retreat being offered there the same weekend ...

It could have been a scene from a “Fargo”-style crime drama: A frozen body partially protruding from a frozen pond. A group of investigators, with tape measures and cameras, studying footprints in the ...

Studying the social behavior of animals in their natural environments is necessary for advancing our understanding of neurological processes. To achieve this, tracking multiple individuals ...

J.T. Beggs leads an exercise in experiencing animal movements. J.T. Beggs scampered across the sand on his hands and knees, imitating the trot of a coyote. Behind him, a group of UC Santa Cruz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wet spring and summer have been good months to find animal tracks in the soft ground, and there are several fun ways for ...