Sentences with phrase «radio collars»

Forty - two cats, including this stray one, were fitted with radio collars and tracked over two years.

You've got to catch them, put radio collars on them, follow them, watch them, see what they do, see what they kill, see what they eat.

And we used to put a little radio collar on the bait so we knew where the tiger was sitting with the bait.

It is a nearly impossible feat as all of the prisoners wear special radio collars.

Join us in our efforts to invest in the future for the island fox and make radio collars available for each island fox that has the opportunity to return to the wild.

For their own protection, these precious new additions to the island fox populations will need radio collars.

Over the next two winters, 31 animals captured in Canada were released into the park, fitted with radio collars so that rangers could track their whereabouts.

Each refurbished collar costs $ 220, a 33 % savings over typical radio collar costs and keeps a used collar out of landfills.

Many polar bear biologists have stopped putting satellite radio collars on polar bears and have turned to other methods to gather population size data, a step that means less handling stress for the bears.

Friends of the Island Fox will be raising money to provide funds for fox radio collars.

For example, citizen scientists from local Sherpa communities set up camera traps, collect scat for DNA analysis, and help put radio collars on the the cats.

To determine how many martens are in the Oregon Dunes, the researchers live - trapped and attached radio collars to 10 adult martens (six females, four males) and set 31 remotely triggered cameras in the study area that could identify unique patterns on collars.

Judging from aerial surveys, sporadic reports by hunters and ranchers, and signals from the few animals wearing radio collars, state wildlife biologists think there are now more than 500 wolves here.

This involves tracking individual animals using radio collars and using data to develop a model that can help predict CWD's spread.

Radio collars help biologists respond quickly when foxes are in danger.

To get the wily hold - outs, researchers had «Judas» goats with radio collars lead them to some elusive herds.

From 1989 to 1993, we were able to place radio collars on three to five pandas each year, allowing us to track a population of about 20 animals on a daily basis.

To find out more, Blanco and her colleagues trapped and fitted the squirrel - sized animals with temperature - sensitive radio collars before the start of the hibernation season, allowing them to find the lemurs» underground burrows and monitor their body temperature once hibernation began.

Between March 2008 and September 2009, the researchers caught nine pumas living in a 1100 - square - kilometer region in southern Chile and strapped GPS - equipped radio collars on them.

The authors of the present study used field observations and GPS radio collars to track 26 mountain lions in and around the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles.

Most of what we know about snow leopard habitat and the way the cats live in their habitat comes from the successful radio collar projects run by the Snow Leopard Conservancy and the Snow Leopard Trust.

Dr Rodney Jackson and Dr Bariushaa Munkhtsog with radio collared snow leopard in 2008.

Four foxes trapped in the fire area were also fitted with radio collars donated by Friends of the Island Fox.

When she is released, she will be fitted with one of the FIF radio collars so that her success in the wild can be monitored.

The researchers tracked 52 females from 2004 to 2009 (I was told that the necks of male bears are too thick to accommodate radio collars), then compared the recorded tracks of the bears with maps of sea ice through the same period.

Analysis of movement data from mark - recapture studies and tracking of adult female bears with satellite radio collars indicated that there are two populations of polar bears in the area, one that inhabits the west coast of Banks Island and Amundsen Gulf and a second that is resident along the mainland coast from about Baillie Islands in Canada to approximately Icy Cape in Alaska.

Radio collars cost $ 250.00 each.

proudly presented funds to Channel Islands National Park for two additional fox radio collars.

Because you can't sedate humans and attach radio collars, scientists are studying human movements with cell phone records that reveal locations.

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Now we have a cheetah project there, and some of the animals are wearing radio collars, and Iran is very supportive in that work.

His team put radio collars on the animals, injected them with water with heavy hydrogen and oxygen atoms so these elements could be traced, recorded the animals» behaviors, and collected their feces to check for how fast those atoms were used, an indicator of metabolic rate.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

In order to track and observe the bears, we realized that we would have to put radio collars on them — a job that requires the skills of a hunter, a veterinarian, and a biologist.

In the 21st century, biologists have tried to restore the Pacific fisher by reintroducing young animals and tracking them with radio collars.

Then the helicopter would land, and a biologist would fit a radio collar onto the drugged wolf.

Gordon Myers, executive director of NCWRC said in a teleconference that an important improvement would be upgrading the radio collars of red wolves that are captured on private land.

The lone wolf (pictured) was wearing a radio collar at the time of her death, and FWS identified her as 914F.

The research project had required outfitting the animals with radio collars.

The radio collars deliver a mild shock when the dog starts to bark.

This is a radio collar that sends a small shock to the dog when he barks.

GPS and radio collars can help tremendously by keeping track of hunting dogs, but they can cost several hundred dollars.

They were excited to look at island fox and bald eagle biofacts - including skull replicas, pelts and radio collars.

Over the years Jan's classes have also funded - a «Watch for Foxes» road sign and a radio collar.

Radio collars on individual foxes will be vital in locating individual animals and determining if any have been overwhelmed by the wildfire.

All released island foxes on the northern islands have been radio collared.

Of 15 radio collared foxes tracked from 1998 to 1999, 5 were believed to be killed by golden eagles and 2 died of other causes.

Make sure you look for their radio collars.

The radio collars enable biologists to monitor the foxes» activity and determine their survival.

Each island fox returned to the wild on San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz Island must have a radio collar so biologists can monitor its activity and survival.