Where the Animals Go Author: Oliver Uberti

Product Details: ISBN: 9781846148811 Format: Hardback Pages: 174 Dims (mm): 256 x 276 Pub Date: 03-11-16 Pub Country: United Kingdom Condition: NEW

Description: 'Beautiful and thrilling ...a joy to study cover to cover' - E. O. Wilson 'Enchanting and exhilarating ...Where the Animals Go is an eye-opening exercise in perspective that puts place and space at the heart of the 21st-century conservation debate' - Literary Review 'This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats' - Dr Jane Goodall 'Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty' - Chris Packham From the best-selling authors of London: The Information Capital comes the first book to use big data to map the movements and behaviour of wild animals all over the world For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the natural world like never before. Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti take you to the forefront of this animal-tracking revolution. Meet the scientists gathering wild data - from seals mapping the sea to baboons making decisions, from birds dodging tornadoes to jaguars taking selfies. Join the journeys of sharks, elephants, bumblebees, snowy owls, and a wolf looking for love. Find an armchair, cancel your plans and go where the animals go. [Praise for London: The Information Capital] 'The book is infinitely compelling, one you'll return to time and again, an

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