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SMS in Wild Life
Chemical Repellent Activated by SMS to
Disperse Birds on the Runway - 30 Aug 2004
The highly modern Singapore Air Force is
plagued by migratory egrets that appear between
September and November, causing fighter planes
to crash if sucked into the jet engines, reports
Spacewar.com.
The Air Force base has come up with several
solutions to this problem; importing aggressive
hawks from Germany to help scare the birds off,
using flares, using digitally recorded bird
distress calls or, and of interest to this
column, using a chemical repellant dispenser
activated by SMS text messages from the control
tower whenever unwelcome avian guests are
spotted on the runway.
SMS Technology Keeps Wild Wolf on the Map
- 18 Aug 2004
Norwegian researchers have used cellphone
text messaging for the first time to track a
young wolf that recently crossed the border from
neighbouring Sweden, according to
iol.
"The wolf is tagged with a transmitter that
transmits short text messages whenever the
animal is near a cellphone communication
antenna.
"Via the SMS messages we receive, we can
locate where the wolf is, and we also get a time
log," researcher Petter Wabakken told public
broadcaster NRK.
The technology is cheap and enables the
researchers to track the wolf which roams a
large area, Wabakken said."
Tracking Moose by SMS - 2 Mar 2004
The New Zealand
Star reports that researchers from the
University of Agricultural Sciences of Stockholm
are tagging several dozen moose with special
cell phones to track their eating habits and
movements across the country. Updates by SMS
will be sent to the scientists 7 times a day.
Other such experiences have been conducted
involving both wildlife and SMS. Last year,
UK's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust tagged
20'000 geese and tracked them with satellite
technology from the breeding grounds of Canada
to Ireland, a 3'000 km flight. Mobile phone
users were able to sign up online for text
messages on the whereabouts of the migrating
geese.
And from the Scottish waters, seals sent out
SMS to scientists, according to an article in
Ananova. Tiny tags were fitted on their coats to
track their movements and their location
pinpointed by satellite global positioning
system. As the seals approached shorelines and
were within mobile phone coverage, data stored
was then sent by SMS from the seals to the land.
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