Many of the robotic systems developed in the past decades are inspired by four-legged (i.e., quadruped) animals, such as dogs, cheetahs and horses. By replicating the agile movements of these animals, ...

At the Sentient Futures Summit, animal welfare advocates pushed to make AI care about animals—and asked if AI might be ...

A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that tracking animal movement and behavior in near real-time could detect dangerous pathogens. As zoonotic diseases like avian flu and COVID-19 ...

For planning animal conservation measures, it is vital to know where endangered species live and how they interact. Ecologists are successfully using tracking technology to learn about the movements ...

Movement ecologists study how animals move in ecosystems together with other individuals of the same or other species. When animals appear to move together, ecologists often assume they're interacting ...

Researchers have developed new software for exploring and communicating animal movements in the wild. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This suite of open-source tools, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BUDAPEST, Hungary — Moving in a dense cloud, like throngs of people walking across a crowded public square, 100 drones maneuver through the night sky in ...

New study shows that daily bird movements shape how bird flu spreads, influenced by habitat, environment, and human activity.

Wild animals are reshaping Earth’s surface more than expected, altering soil, rivers, and sediment movement across ecosystems ...

Young African lions (Panthera leo) on the road in Hluhluwe National Park, South Africa. When they leave their mothers, young male lions have to disperse to find new territories. To do this, they ...

Over the last decade, spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models have become widespread for estimating demographic parameters in ecological studies. However, the underlying assumptions about animal ...