Mapping The Slap-Up Wildebeest Migration

HerdTracker has started to map the 2014 wildebeest migration. Every twelvemonth the bluish wildebeest of East Africa migrate across the Serengeti together with Massai Mara next the rains together with grass growth.

This twelvemonth Discover Africa is providing weekly updates of the wildebeest migration on a Google Map. Using data from pilots who wing over the Serengeti, safari guides on the ground, Tanzania National Parks Authority rangers together with lodges inwards the Masai Mara inwards Republic of Kenya the map provides updates on the latest locations of the wildebeest herds.

Each weekly study is displayed on the map amongst a map marker. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large bluish marking indicates the latest study on the widebeest's location. Beneath the map a Twitter agency timeline likewise provides data on the latest reports on the wildebeest migration.

Ocean Currents, Air Current & Whale Tracking

The Smartmine Whale Tracker is an animated map of whale tracks off the coast of Hawaii. The map animates the recorded tracks of a break of Sperm, Beaked as well as Killer whales as well as equally good allows y'all to persuasion animated sea currents as well as air current on the same map.

The selection to persuasion the animated sea currents as well as the animated whale tracks on the same map is pretty amazing. The map includes a break of base of operations maps, a satellite view, a nautical map as well as a bathymetry map. It equally good includes the selection to filter the map yesteryear whale species as well as yesteryear private whale.


The WWF Species Tracker is a Google Map dedicated to tracking the movements of a break of animals closed to the world. The map includes the tracks of a break of polar bears, marine turtles, yellowfin tuna, bowhead whales, jaguars as well as a narwahl whale.

You tin conduct each private animate beingness on the map as well as non alone persuasion the animal's movements only read a periodical of the animal's drive as well as deportment over the final few months. Each runway includes fourth dimension stamps along its path, allowing y'all to encounter when it passed through each location, as well as a break of 'information' markers providing analysis of the animal's progress.

A Twenty-Four Hours Inwards The Life Of Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer is a babe monkey living inwards the Guanacaste Province inwards Costa Rica.

A Day inwards the Life of Winslow Homer is a map of Winslow's solar daytime on Jan 24, 2014. The map provides a rail of Winslow's movements, from get-go waking, at 5:44 am, until his bedtime at 18:10. The map too includes a large disclose of observations, made past times the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project, of Winslow's interactions, eating together with guide throughout the day.

Alongside the numerous observations of Winslow's solar daytime the map includes a disclose of markers which supply an insight into the operate of the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project, the lives together with guide of Capuchin monkeys together with Winslow's life then far.

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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A Day inwards the Life of Winslow Homer - a solar daytime inwards the life of a Capuchin monkey.
The Secret Life of Cats - tracking domestic cats inwards a Surrey village
LifeWatch - tracking the daily flights of Eric the seagull

Mapping Goodall's Chimps

Google has created a actually prissy storey map exploring Jane Goodall's interrogation on chimps inwards Gombe Park, Tanzania. The map takes bully payoff of Google's recent Street View imagery captured inwards the national park.

The Gombe Park Street View Trek follows a directly familiar format for storey maps. To progress through the interactive you lot simply conk along scrolling downwards the page. As you lot scroll through the Trek you lot tin persuasion highlights from Google's Street View imagery inwards the commons in addition to acquire to a greater extent than nigh Goodall's groundbreaking research.

I don't know if I'm flattering myself but this novel interactive from Google seems to acquit a passing resemblance to the hold upwards of Street View in addition to Google Maps inwards my own Khmer Empire storey map. Google's map is apparently much to a greater extent than polished in addition to I bet it industrial plant on tablets in addition to phones (unlike my Central Khmer Empire map).

I created my Central Khmer Empire storey map using the Google Maps API amongst Waypoints.js. If you lot desire to create your ain storey map amongst the Google Maps API experience gratis to reuse the code from the Central Khmer Empire map.

If you lot similar looking at animals on Street View you lot should too depository fiscal establishment fit out my niggling Sea View Aquarium, featuring some of Google's recent Great Barrier Reef underwater Street View imagery.

Mapping Creature Tracks

Tracking Geese Migration Between Deutschland as well as Russia is a Google Map showing the flying paths of a release of Geese over a release of years.

If you lot choose a bird's advert from the map side-panel you lot tin sentiment the chosen bird's path on the map. The time-line beneath the map shows the dates for the visualized flying paths. You tin also click on the round down markers on the bird's path to uncovering out the appointment when the plane was at the recorded location.


Last Lord's Day a release of hackers took purpose inwards EcoHack World to practise or as well as thence interesting environmental visualizations. During the solar daytime CartodDB was used to practise a release of brute tracking maps.

The maps include this map of  Every Animal Tracked yesteryear WhaleNet. Using the map you lot tin choose to sentiment the tracks of a release of marine animals, including seals, porpoises, turtles as well as dolphins. You tin run into all 5 brute tracking maps on this CartoDB webpage.

Check out the animal tracking tag to sentiment other brute tracking maps, showing the movements of cats, wildebeest, polar bears, seagulls, monkeys, weasels as well as many other animals.

More Cloak-And-Dagger Lives Of Cats

Two years agone the BBC screened a documentary called The Secret Life of Cats. In the programme they attached GPS trackers in addition to micro-cameras to a issue of domestic cats inwards an English linguistic communication village.

To accompany the telly demo the BBC published x Ordnance Survey maps showing the tracks of x of the featured the cats over a 24 hr period. Each of the maps is accompanied past times a pocket-sized cinema clip of the detail tracked truthful cat inwards activity in addition to a summary nearly how far each truthful cat roams from its habitation in addition to the size of its roaming area.


Thanks to Movebank, an online database of animate existence tracking data, a issue of other cats accept too had their movements mapped. Andrew Hill of CartoDB has taking the information for 1 of the cats tracked on Movebank in addition to mapped out his movements over 1 week.

The Spencer the Cat map shows Spencer's movements on altitude of a stylized map. If yous desire yous tin too meet his tracks overlaid on altitude of a satellite thought inwards this map.

The Race A Tiger Map

Do yous mean value yous could trounce a tiger inwards a human foot race? This novel WWF Tiger Challenge map lets yous detect out.

The Worldwide Wildlife Fund are tracking the daily movements of a tiger inwards Russia. His daily rail is visualized on a Google Map in addition to shows the full distance traveled in addition to his average speed over the cast of the day.

To detect out if yous could trounce the tiger inwards a running race yous tin connect your ain information from a position out of sports tracking apps (including Runkeeper, Nike+, Strava & Map My Run). Once you've added your information yous volition in addition to therefore uncovering whether yous are equally fast equally a tiger or not. My advice is to cheat in addition to at to the lowest degree role a bike when racing a tiger.