On our planet, at any one moment, billions of animals are on the move. From migratory birds, insects, marine mammals and ...

Many of the robotic systems developed in the past decades are inspired by four-legged (i.e., quadruped) animals, such as dogs ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

They can be used on land as well as in the ocean and have revolutionized how researchers study animal movement. Most elements exist in two or more forms, known as isotopes. Isotopes have the same ...

What sets migration apart from other forms of movements is that migration typically involves travelling from one type of habitat to another (Aidley 1981). Migrating animals are found in all major ...

Apes are difficult to move and moving them typically requires sedation, lifting a heavy chimpanzee which poses danger to personnel, the use of heavy equipment for movement of the animal, and ...

This directly affects food security, especially in rural livelihoods. Global climate change and the increased movement of animals and people are creating favourable conditions for the emergence or ...