image: Radio tracking fruit bats in the world's biggest bat colony in Kasanka National Park, Zambia for the expedition of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology is shown. Scientists include Max Planck director Dr. Martin Wikelski, and researchers Dr. Jakob Fahr and Dr. Roland Kays. The image shows Martin Wikelski releasing a transmittered bat. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 12, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Kays at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC, and colleagues was titled, "Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet." view more
Credit: [Credit: Christian Ziegler, <a href="mailto:zieglerphoto@yahoo.com">zieglerphoto@yahoo.com</a>]