Wildlife tracking takes to the trees
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Wildlife_tracking_takes_to_the_trees/a68373
Endangered animals, quite understandably, do their best not to be found. So it took the aid of sophisticated imaging and recording technology for a team of researchers from Finland and the U.K. to capture the habits and movements of tree hyraxes in the mountains of Kenya.
Tree hyraxes, mainly found in Africa, are nocturnal mammals with a guinea pig-like appearance that, as their name suggests, spend a lot of time in trees.
A tree hyrax. The animals dwell in the shrinking forests of the mountains of Kenya. Courtesy of Hanna Rosti.
Takeaways from the researchers’ study included: the higher in trees the better for an individual animal’s survival, and the bigger the forested areas the better for providing food...
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