Martin Wikelski

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112 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Jun

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · The Internet of Animals · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

So that's always our main concern that the animals are safe and that they have a good life, even if they have a little wearable.

Well, for information, more is always better.

But for the animals, less is always better.

You know, fewer animals that you ask to provide their information.

So we have the same issue as the opinion poll people.

We have to find out what's the sweet spot.

Yeah.

How many do we need to tag to really understand what's going on?

And that is something that is coming.

That's something we don't know yet for many species.

Yes.

So, I mean, Okanbara, so we tagged a whole lot of animals there to try to see whether they can tell us whether poachers are coming through or hunters are coming through.

Because when you have a tag on a rhino and the rhino calls in and says, I'm in trouble, then it's usually too late.

So you need the other animals to really tell you.

hey, there's some trouble coming your way, or there's some trouble going through the savannah.

And they have their eyes and their ears and their noses all over the place.

And if they all panic because somebody's walking through there, then we can really say, oh, there's danger coming towards the rhino or towards some other problem species.

So that's a really important way to have animals protect animals via telling us what's happening.

Yes, that's the idea.

We simulated that ourselves, had some hunters going through and pretending they're poachers, and that does work.

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