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Where the Animals Go

Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics

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"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the all-time in science and exposition, and a joy to study encompass to cover." —Edward O. Wilson, Academy Enquiry Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, photographic camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers reveal the natural world as never earlier. Where the Animals Go is the first book to offer a comprehensive, information-driven portrait of how creatures like ants, otters, owls, turtles, and sharks navigate the world. Based on pioneering research by scientists at the forefront of the creature-tracking revolution, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti's stunning, four-color charts and maps tell fascinating stories of animal behavior. These astonishing infographics explain how warblers observe incoming storms using sonic vibrations, how baboons make decisions, and why storks prefer garbage dumps to wild forage; they follow pythons racing through the Everglades, a lovelorn wolf traversing the Alps, and humpback whales visiting undersea mountains. Where the Animals Get is a triumph of engineering, data science, and design, bringing wide perspective and intimate detail to our understanding of the animate being kingdom.

Praise For Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Applied science in 50 Maps and Graphics…

[Where the Animals Get] is an enthralling volume, downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text. Its double intent is brilliant, also — to bring each of us closer to the animate being globe and to highlight fresh means to call back about conservation.

— Barbara King - NPR

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

— Science

Cheshire and Uberti write about billions of data points being nerveless—some by citizen scientists—and their ravishing maps put this information to expert use…[They] testify the states with precision and clarity where the animals go.
— The Washington Mail

This book is beautiful every bit well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it volition aid in our fight to save wild fauna and wild habitats.
— Jane Goodall

In recent years, technology has made it possible to rail beast movements from afar in more than and more detail… [Cheshire and Uberti] take dipped into this deluge of data to create fifty beautiful and engaging maps that reveal the wanderings of animals.
— National Geographic

A striking example of how innovative engineering science can be used to increase our agreement of the natural globe.
— Financial Times

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

[A] stunning translation of movement onto newspaper.
— Scientific American

[Due west]ell laid out, like shooting fish in a barrel to sympathise and a pleasance to return to many times.
— Seattle Times

An enthralling expect at the world that technology can assistance us uncover… Exquisite.
— Emily Scragg - British Trust for Ornithology

Part coffee-table album, role scientific research compendium, [Where the Animals Go] presents these global perambulations in lush detail, reveling in their minutiae and in the technological leaps that make such observations possible. . . tracking an fauna through time and space transforms it from a mere object of scientific involvement into a story whose unsolved mysteries capture our imagination.

— Thousand. R. O'Connor - Undark Magazine

[A] gorgeous data trove… Accompanying the text are beautifully designed four-colour maps and other visualizations … [A]north inspiring introduction to an important expanse of science.
— Library Journal

W. W. Norton & Visitor, 9780393634020, 192pp.

Publication Engagement: September 19, 2017

About the Author

James Cheshire is professor of geographic data and cartography at University College London.

Oliver Uberti is a Los Angeles–based designer and a erstwhile design editor for National Geographic.