Satellites Tracking Survival of Five Orphaned Bears
This week in Russia, researchers from IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) and veterinarians from the Moscow Zoo returned five orphaned bear cubs to the wild. This is not unusual as Zoos all over the world take in orphaned or injured animals, nursing them back to health. This goes for oceanic animals too; most often the animals are tagged in hopes that if they re-surface in nature we can see their progress in their own surroundings.
One of the strange occurances here is that one of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a scientific step forward in evaluating post-release behavior and survival of animals released back into the wild. These bear cubs orphaned by the cruel winter in Russia, will now be watched via satellite as he and siblings move locations trailing them back to ther native area. The collar is programmed to record information about the animal’s location every 90 minutes and to automatically drop-off after a period of 18 months. This will allow the bear to grow to it’s normal state without any restrictive devices attached to it stumping its growth.
I’m sure there are many parents who would be interested in trying this out on their kin in hopes that those mysterious Friday nights out late can be tracked where they roam. For now, these devices will be used to protect, learn and adapt to how we nuture bears and other animals back to health in hopes that they can return to their natural habitat. Read this article and much more interesting news on Earth Times.
What a concept, the Earth’s news. If only poiliticians, news media agencies and other parties could put aside their own self-absorbed personal agendas to produce something more Earthly. Everything we read today is so saturated in slanderous warped thoughts and ideas, that the good of the whole and the thought of one world is practically a farse.
