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How do animals know where to go?

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How Far Do Animals Move?

Icarus is a global animal tracking system devised by scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany. It streams data from tiny little solar-powered tags that are attached to animals moving around the world up to a receiver on the International Space Station and then back down to Earth. The project started scientific operations last September.

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