Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to ...

Researchers developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking which they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. They have thus taken an important step ...

Identification of each animal in a collective becomes possible even when individuals are never all visible simultaneously, enabling faster and more accurate analysis of collective behavior.

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers are still working to get more detailed information to better combat ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking that they can use in indoor environments as well ...

J.T. Beggs leads an exercise in experiencing animal movements. J.T. Beggs scampered across the sand on his hands and knees, imitating the trot of a coyote. Behind him, a group of UC Santa Cruz ...

One winter several years ago, I conducted one of my weekend retreats at a conference center in western Massachusetts. When I arrived, I heard about another retreat being offered there the same weekend ...

A fresh blanket of new fallen snow recently provided Tim Puopulo a blank canvas to find what he was looking for. The park ranger was tracking animals through the middle of a park in Cambridge, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wet spring and summer have been good months to find animal tracks in the soft ground, and there are several fun ways for ...

Two pigeons are pecking grains in a park in Konstanz. A third pigeon flies in. There are four cameras in the immediate vicinity. Doctoral students Alex Chan and Urs Waldmann from the Cluster of ...