Saturday, August 15, 2020

Weasel Tracking On Google Maps


This calendar week JSTOR Daily published a actually interesting article exploring how too why a issue of brute species inwards North America are flourishing yesteryear adapting to living inwards urban environments. Included inwards the article is a map tracking a Fisher weasel, named Phineas, over v days.

Phineas lives inwards the suburbs of Albany, New York too was given a GPS collars too therefore that scientists could rails his movements. Phineas the Fisher's Work Week is a Google Map showing Phineas' movements over v nights.

The rails for each black is given a unlike color on the map too therefore that y'all tin come across Phineas' movements for each black of the week. If y'all hover over the minor circles on the tracks y'all tin notice out almost simply about of the pregnant moments inwards Phineas' week. For example, afterwards crossing a busy route ane night, Phineas became stuck inwards a minor wooded expanse until he institute a drainage pipage which allowed him to cross safely dorsum nether the road.

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