discussion / Biologging  / 9 December 2019

Number of radio collared animals?

This is a slightly odd question; is there a sensible estimate (or intelligent informed guess) for the total number of animals carrying tracking devices (radio collars, GPS, satellite, LoRa etc) at any one time. My guess is thoudands, but it could be out by an order of magnitude either way.

Thank you in advance. Peter Apps




Thanks Alasdair

So there are low double figure thousands just with the various services of satellite collars. Then surely high tens of thousands, maybe low hundreds of thousands with terrestrial GPS and conventional VHF.