Where Humans Set Up Camp, Animals Roam Much Shorter Distances (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Where Humans Set Up Camp, Animals Roam Much Shorter Distances (1 of 1)

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Images of animals moving in natural and human-modified landscapes. The lion, caribou and elephant are individuals that are included in the study and were tracked with GPS devices. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 26, 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.A. Tucker at Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung in Frankfurt (Main), Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements."

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George Wittemeyer

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