I have heard of bears and birds (via pasta and vinegar) being tracked with GPS technology but I hadn’t heard about snow leopards being tracked until reading this BBC article in the Technology section.

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Mr Spearing said: “This study is the first time GPS technology has been used to track snow leopards. It is going to give us very accurate, detailed knowledge of the size of the cats’ home range and the sort of day-to-day movements they make.” The collars, when fitted, use GPS to pin-point the exact position of the cats several times a day. This information is then beamed to researchers’ inboxes via the US-French Argos-satellite data-relay system.

Relevance: After using GPS technology in our “the Fugitive” location-based game, I am interested in other uses of GPS technology throughout the world.

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