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Lions who send text messages (KSAT)
Conservationists in Kenya are receiving SMS messages these days from an
unlikely source: Lions roaming the savannah. No, the lions haven't somehow
morphed into thumb-happy adolescents, texting messages such as "Just 8 a
gazelle. Yum. LOL." Instead the animals wear GPS-enabled collars that send
automated messages via wireless networks to researchers who map their
locations. "GPS collars have fundamentally changed the way that lion research
is done, in that we are able to study lion movements in great detail in areas
where it is usually impossible to follow them," says a post on the website of
Living with Lions, one of the conservation research groups behind the project.
According to the group, the population of lions in Africa has plunged in
recent years from more than 100,000 to about 30,000 - in part because local
Maasai herders, concerned about lions preying on their livestock, have been
poisoning the animals. For years, scientists have tracked the movements of
lions and other wild animals with VHF collars that emit radio signals. The
data helps researchers to better understand the animals' social structure,
mortality rates, feeding ecology and other behavior. But that method requires
workers in the field to ...
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