Pioneering technology
English zoologist Rory Wilson is renowned for developing ingenious ways to track wild animals and record their behaviour without directly observing them. His latest invention, a lightweight electronic logger, can go where satellite-based tracking devices cannot, to observe free-living animals.
"This single concept can become a powerful tool to enable us to study and understand difficult animals and thus acquire the information necessary to safeguard their welfare.”
Wilson’s new logger harnesses the laws of physics to accurately estimate the energy expenditure of animals on land, at sea and in the air, and is set to revolutionize research into the behaviour of threatened species, and obtain precious data to help save them and their habitats.
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Professor Rory Wilson
Institute of Environmental Sustainability
School of the Environment and Society
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Wales SA2 OTZ
United KingdomTel: + 44 1792 295 376
r.p.wilson@swansea.ac.uk
