Where The Animals Go
  • Published: 15 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141982229
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 174
  • RRP: $35.00
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Where The Animals Go

Tracking Wildlife With Technology In 50 Maps And Graphics

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A pioneering book that uses big data to map the movements of 50 different animals on land, sea and sky, from ants to humpback whales, bats to the great white shark

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.
  • Published: 15 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141982229
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 174
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for Where The Animals Go

[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Brilliantly compelling...The Information Capital is a tour de force in the modern use of graphics to make a point

London Evening Standard

[Praise for London: The Information Capital] Visually stunning maps and graphics

Guardian

This is a special kind of detective story. After millennia of using footprints, faeces, feathers, broken foliage and nests to track animals, the process is now so teched up you need to read this book to find out the how, what and why

New Scientist

[Praise for London: The Information Capital] The book is infinitely compelling, one you'll return to time and again, and full of 'wow, you have to see this' moments. It reinforces the notion that information really can be beautiful...

Londonist

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

Incredible

The Big Issue

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

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

Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover

E. O. Wilson

From the first page, this book is an enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover. [...] I can't review this book without mentioning the maps, which are exquisite. They convey an astounding quantity and quality of information

Kate Scragg, British Trust for Ornithology

A stunning translation of movement onto paper

Scientific American

Its double intent is brilliant - to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation...Downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text ... an exceptional book

NPR

Each story is a striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world

Financial Times

An unstoppable book that will please anyone with an interest in the natural world

Geographical

Ravishing

Washington Post

Where the Animals Go elegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration

Science