Professor Wouter van Hoven of the University of Pretoria’s Center for Wildlife Management says getting a text message from a leopard is “a great ice-breaker in the pub”,this article in IHT reports.”Van Hoven explained how the technology works for his leopard research purposes:”The collar on the animal is programmed to send out four SMSs a day,every six hours,and that SMS is linked to a GPS,so every six hours the collars register the exact global position of where the animal is.That is then fed to the cellphone.The cellphone then sends the SMS,which is the position information of the animal.Van Hoven said the information also was linked to a secure Web site that has a map on which the GPS coordinates are plotted.From this,Van Hoven said, a pattern of habits and range can be extrapolated from the seemingly random collection of six hourly location coordinates”.The head of the company behind the wireless animal tracking system “said getting a text message from a leopard - or an elephant,cheetah,rhino or lion - was increasingly frequent in South Africa.Many game reserves or conservation areas have wild animals that are fitted with collared tracking devices”.
Professor Wouter van Hoven of the University of Pretoria’s Center for Wildlife Management says getting a text message from a leopard is “a great ice-breaker in the pub”,this article in IHT reports.”Van Hoven explained how the technology works for his leopard research purposes:”The collar on the animal is programmed to send out four SMSs a [...]
