The Internet of Animals

1. From the Prairie to Space and Back
2. The Bird Information Highway
3. A Little Ovenbird Makes Us Think Again
4. The Early Days of Tracking
5. Walking Like a Cowboy
6. Our Sputnik Moment
7. Rats! Still So Much to Learn
8. The Long March to ICARUS
9. Switching Back to Europe
10. Who's in Charge?
11. The ICARUS Design Starts
12. Tagging Animals in the Field
13. Getting Closer to Launch
14. Finally, We Have Liftoff
15. The Rocky Road of Tag Development
16. All Systems Go-or Not
17. Animals at Play
18. Putin Invades Ukraine
19. Cosmic Ideas from Aristotle to Humboldt
20. Berta, the Earthquake Cow
21. The Internet of Animals

Martin Wikelski is the director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and honorary professor of ornithology at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, assistant professor at the University of Illinois and associate professor at Princeton.

Keith Gaddis is the program manager for NASA's Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting programs. An ecologist and biogeographer by training, he is a vocal advocate for the use of science in public decision-making.

"[A] bonkers, delightful read....[Wikelski's] vision of creating a way for animals to communicate what they are remains a vital, galvanizing example of how human ingenuity and persistence can make a difference in how we understand the world around us."
-BookPage

"[An] energetic memoir ... Wikelski's speculation that tracking animals capable of sensing natural disasters could warn humans about impending volcanic activity or tsunamis intrigues. It's an awe-inspiring look at the scientific process and the wonders of nature."
-Publishers Weekly

"Wikelski has gotten to know more individual animals than anyone in history-in this book he helps those animals tell us their most important stories."
-Roland Kays, NC Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State University

"The Internet of Animals is an eloquent bird's-eye view of life on Earth. Martin Wikelski, a visionary biologist, has spent his career at the razor edge of technology and animal behavior. His adventurous research poses an ultimate question: What can we learn from the collective wisdom of all living things? Wikelski's narrative is fascinating and refreshingly optimistic. I read this book in a happy nanosecond, and will ponder it for a lifetime.
-Noah Stryker, author of Birding Without Borders

"Wikelski's account of pioneering one of the most revolutionary approaches ever to tracking wild creatures is as uplifting as it is fascinating."
-Scott Weidensaul, author of A World on the Wing

"In The Internet of Animals, Martin Wikelski traces the trials and triumphs of a grand idea: tracking the migrations and everyday movements of multiple species from space. But while the ICARUS project may rely on satellites, its stars are the earthbound creatures that come alive in Wikelski's wonderful stories, drawn from decades of dedicated fieldwork. At its heart, this book is a loving ode to science itself, told with wit and wonder."