Tech Article 4/14

Tracking Down Animals

Scientist, Martin Wielski, has always found animal's migration interesting. He always believed that their migration or just their movement is trying to tell us something such as "there is an earthquake coming soon" or "the ebola outbreak is headed this way".

He used a new strategy to try to track down these animals and even bugs. He placed radio tags on the backs of animals and followed them around to s

ee their behaviors and see if there is something that they want to tell us. Fruit bats, which carry ebola, are usually never seen most of the year. He wanted to know where they were going and where they hide. He would track them down by putting a radio tag on one of the bats and follow them around. Wielski even learned to fly a plane in order to follow them.

He believes that by doing this he can learn new science. He thinks that he can use their behaviors to see if there are some predictions that he can find.