Wildlife Wearables

Long before humans started using wearable tech we have used wearables to help keep track of animals. We use wearable tech on animals to help keep track of information such as their location, heart rate, and population. We use the information gathered from the wearable tech that we use on animals to help keep up the population of certain species. We also use the wearable tech on animals to help us keep track of certain patterns that occur across species such as migration patterns.

Link to original article with more information on the subject: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/wildlife-wearables-how-tech-is-c1417105367989.html

I think that it is cool that we use wearable tech to help keep animals healthy and present in the ecosystem. It is a very interesting way to use wearable tech to help preserve the environment. I also think that the wearable tech on animals will help us learn a lot more about the world around us. With today's technology we can keep track of things such as heartbeat rate. I also think it is very cool that we can keep track of the exact location of certain animals. This way we can see patterns in the movement, such as migration routes. Using this data we could determine certain ecological hot spots around the world that we need to make sure remain untouched by industrialization. Animal tech could also spring into a new era of owning pets. By monitoring things such as heart rate or repeated physical gestures someone could be alerted that their dog needs food, water, or if it wants to go to the bathroom.I think that this is awesome as it takes some of the stress off of owning a dog or a cat. You could also use wearable tech on pets to see if they are in danger or if they are aggravated (in that case you probably would not want to mess with them). An personal example of when this would help that I can think is when one of my cats got her leg stuck in between two bars on a metal chair. The cat was stuck in an awkward position for  a while, and we didn't know that she was having troubles because she was outside. If she was wearing a type of device that monitored her heart rate we probably could have figured out that she was in a sticky position a lot sooner, and it would have been easier to get her out of the position (because by that time she had made the situation a lot worse by wiggling around).

Overall, I think that wearable tech on animals has already done a lot to help us preserve the ecosystem. I think that it has a lot of potential, and it could spread into the homes of pet owners to help them make sure that their animals are happy and safe.

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