April 08, 2025
Adventures in Using Technology to Study Boreal Mammals
Kamloops Sports Council Clubhouse • 1550 Island Parkway Dr. Kamloops, BC, Canada V2B 0H7 Organized by Kamloops Adult Learners SocietyAbout this event
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As any naturalist is aware, wildlife is hard to find, let alone observe for long periods of time. This presents challenges in studying behaviour of animals in the wild and limits what research can and cannot be done. The current technological revolution is quickly changing this by providing ecologists with a range of new tools that can record detailed behavioural data continuously over large temporal periods. In this talk, I will share some of the adventures that I have had over the past 15 years developing and testing the use of some of these novel technologies (Fitbits and spy mics) to study behaviour of Canada lynx, snowshoe hares and red squirrels during the depths of Yukon winters. From frozen fingers and failed devices to lynx arguments and surprising behaviour, like any good adventure there has been a mixture of failures and successes and plenty of good stories, some of which I will share along the way.
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C$10.00