Mobile Phones for Geese and Seals

Posted by timothy on Monday June 10, 2002 @07:43PM 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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CritterCam is pretty neat... by australopithecus · 2002-06-10 20:38 · 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***