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Hidden Florence revealed through new history tour App

By Guest PostSeptember 6, 2014Technologyandre taylor, app, assq, colors, david, Google, gps tracking, harrison pope, michelangelo, molecule squaraine, photovoltaic panels, rolf ulrich, sunlight to energy, university of exeter, venus

An opportunity to experience an unseen side of Florence is now possible via a new smartphone App which brings the past to life through the eyes of an ordinary 15^th century Florentine.

In the Italian Renaissance city of Florence, tourists often take the well-trodden routes of seeing the iconic artworks of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s David.

Now, this free history App is available providing an unconventional tour in which you walk in the footsteps of wool worker Giovanni, hunting for statues, street tabernacles and piazzas whilst being told vivid tales about the city. It is based around an interactive map, complete with audio directions and storytelling. The Hidden Florence App opens up a city overlooked by conventional tourist guides. (more…)

Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight

By Guest PostJuly 21, 2013Naturealaska, animal tracking system, big data approach, birds eye view, east coast, env data, galapagos albatross, Germany, gil bohrer, gps tracking, gps tracking data, individual birds, lafayette college, max planck institute, migration, migration patterns, north Carolina, ohio state university, ornithology, project, roland kays, satellite, scientific users, state university, U.S. Geological Survey, university of Illinois, university of konstanz, urbana-champaign, youtube video

Call it a bird’s eye view of migration. Scientists are taking a fresh look at animal movement with a big data approach that combines GPS tracking data with satellite weather and terrain information.

The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) system, featured in the journal Movement Ecology, can handle millions of data points and serve a hundred scientists simultaneously, said co-founder Dr. Roland Kays, a zoologist with North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. (more…)

Behaviour of seabirds during migration revealed

By Guest PostMay 6, 2013Natureanimal behavior, anthropogenic pressure, behaviour of seabirds, behavioural states, centre for mathematics, complex data series, computational analyses, conservation concern, environmental, environmental conditions, ethoinformatics, flight, geolocators, gps tracking, lightweight gps loggers, manx shearwater, migration, migration data, new method, patterns of foraging, puffinus puffinus, rest, robin freeman, royal society, small seabird, south america, south eastern brazil, species, tracking technologies, ucl, uk birds, university of oxford, western atlantic

The behaviour of seabirds during migration – including patterns of foraging, rest and flight – has been revealed in new detail using novel computational analyses and tracking technologies.

Using a new method called ‘ethoinformatics’, described as the application of computational methods in the investigation of animal behaviour, scientists have been able to analyse three years of migration data gathered from miniature tracking devices attached to the small seabird the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus). (more…)

Male lions use ambush hunting strategy

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2013Nature3d maps, africa, african savanna, ambush style hunting, animal behavior, balance, cao aircraft, carnegie, carnegie airborne observatory, craig tambling, female lions, females, gps tracking, greg asner, habitats, hunting, kruger national park, lidar scanner, male lions, open grassy savannas, petr kratochvil, predators, prey, savanna vegetation, scott loarie, South Africa, species, university of pretoria, viewsheds

Washington, D.C.— It has long been believed that male lions are dependent on females when it comes to hunting. But new evidence suggests that male lions are, in fact, very successful hunters in their own right. A new report from a team including Carnegie’s Scott Loarie and Greg Asner shows that male lions use dense savanna vegetation for ambush-style hunting in Africa. Their work is published in Animal Behavior.

Female lions have long been observed to rely on cooperative strategies to hunt their prey. While some studies demonstrated that male lions are as capable at hunting as females, the males are less likely to cooperate, so there were still questions as to how the males manage to hunt successfully. The possibility that male lions used vegetation for ambushing prey was considered, but it was difficult to study given the logistics and dangers of making observations of lions in densely vegetated portions of the African savanna. (more…)

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Hidden Florence revealed through new history tour App

Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight

Behaviour of seabirds during migration revealed

Male lions use ambush hunting strategy