Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics - Hardcover

Cheshire, James; Uberti, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393634027 ISBN 13: 9780393634020

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Synopsis

"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." ―Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers reveal the natural world as never before. Where the Animals Go is the first book to offer a comprehensive, data-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 animal-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 detect 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 Go is a triumph of technology, data science, and design, bringing broad perspective and intimate detail to our understanding of the animal kingdom.

100 color illustrations; 3 gatefolds

About this title

About the Author:

James Cheshire is an associate professor at University College London, whose award-winning maps have appeared in the Financial Times and the Guardian.

Award-winning designer and visual journalist Oliver Uberti was previously senior design editor at National Geographic. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Review:

“[Where the Animals Go] is an enthralling volume, downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text. Its double intent is brilliant, too ― to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation.”
- Barbara King, NPR

“Where the Animals Go elegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration.”
- Science

“Cheshire and Uberti write about billions of data points being collected―some by citizen scientists―and their ravishing maps put this information to good use...[They] show us with precision and clarity where the animals go.”
- The Washington Post

“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.”
- Jane Goodall

“In recent years, technology has made it possible to track animal movements from afar in more and more detail... [Cheshire and Uberti] have dipped into this deluge of data to create 50 beautiful and engaging maps that reveal the wanderings of animals.”
- National Geographic

“A striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world.”
- 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 so teched up you need to read this book to find out the how, what and why.”
- New Scientist

“[A] stunning translation of movement onto paper.”
- Scientific American

“[W]ell laid out, easy to understand and a pleasure to return to many times.”
- Seattle Times

“An enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover... Exquisite.”
- Emily Scragg, British Trust for Ornithology

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393634027
• ISBN 13: 9780393634020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192