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Mobile Phones for Geese and Seals

Posted by timothy on from the roaming-charges-apply dept.

prostoalex writes: "BBC News has two related articles about mobile phones and messaging being introduced to the animal world. The stories, aptly named Geese 'phone' home and Seals 'phone' home (kudos from this-title-is-so-original dept.) talk about 'tagged' animals that report about their location via the cellular systems. And if seal tracking is available only to the scientists in the field, following the geese online is open to anyone who contributes .75 British pounds to the research project."

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  1. CritterCam is pretty neat... by australopithecus · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    ok, so its slightly OT, but along the same lines:


    Some guy at National Geographic has been attaching camcorders he calls CritterCams to the backs of sea turtles, sharks, and other shit that swims around in hard to reach places (no comment).

    You cant track them online, but it would make for one trippy-as-hell video to project on a wall at a party.
    peace***
  2. ...this shows the big gap between US and Europe. by jukal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I live in Finland, and it is possible to get spammed with about any content you can imagine. During year 2001, 1.2 billion sms messages were sent in Finland. With Finland's 5.2 million citizens, that means 230 messages per person during last year. And that includes infants, and those who are over 65 years old (there is 760 000 of them, 15.6%).
    So for us, the mobile messaging is not a buzzword anymore. It is the default. And in addition to this wireless notification aspect, this was an article, that I would have thought to see on WWF's site and not Slashdot :)