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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Weasel Tracking On Google Maps


This calendar week JSTOR Daily published a actually interesting article exploring how too why a issue of fauna species inwards North America are flourishing yesteryear adapting to living inwards urban environments. Included inwards the article is a map tracking a Fisher weasel, named Phineas, over 5 days.

Phineas lives inwards the suburbs of Albany, New York too was given a GPS collars too therefore that scientists could runway his movements. Phineas the Fisher's Work Week is a Google Map showing Phineas' movements over 5 nights.

The runway for each nighttime is given a unlike color on the map too therefore that you lot tin encounter Phineas' movements for each nighttime of the week. If you lot hover over the small-scale circles on the tracks you lot tin honor out well-nigh about of the pregnant moments inwards Phineas' week. For example, later crossing a busy route i night, Phineas became stuck inwards a small-scale wooded expanse until he works life a drainage pipage which allowed him to cross safely dorsum nether the road.

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