This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

What sets migration apart from other forms of movements is that migration typically involves travelling from one type of habitat to another (Aidley 1981). Migrating animals are found in all major ...

While humans whine over facing the impacts of global warming, poor voiceless beings often go unnoticed. As extreme quantities of greenhouse gases pilfer Earth’s ecosystem, half of the world’s ...

Radio and satellite telemetry have revealed a lot about animal movements, but are limited by the need for batteries, whose weight sets a ceiling on the size of the animal that can be tracked ...

This directly affects food security, especially in rural livelihoods. Global climate change and the increased movement of animals and people are creating favourable conditions for the emergence or ...