Collar
Tag
NEW POSSIBILITIES for your STUDY DESIGN…. LOTEK’s CONTACT PROXIMITY
Lotek proximity sensors are now available on a wide array of Lotek GPS collar models. With this feature included, two or more collars that are within contact distance of up to 5 – 10 feet from each other exchange and log their respective IDs. The GPS location and the duration of their encounters are also logged in the collar’s memory.
Lotek’s new GPS collars with contact proximity logging help you answer new questions:
Disease epidemiology (spread of infectious pathogens)
Inter and intra species interactions (reproductive strategy, herd coherence, social interactions, social behavior)
Temporal variation in within-group contacts in a high-density population in naturally infected individuals
Detecting the variability in contact patterns within and between species with better spacial resolution than ever possible before
Contact Networks in a Wildlife-Livestock Host Community: Identifying High-Risk Individuals in the Transmission of Bovine TB among Badgers and Cattle
Monika Bo¨hm1, Michael R. Hutchings2, Piran C. L. White1*
1 Environment Department, University of York, York, United Kingdom, 2 Disease Systems, Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005016&type=printable
Social relationships and reproductive behavior of island foxes inferred from proximity logger data
KATHERINE RALLS,* JESSICA N. SANCHEZ, JENNIFER SAVAGE, TIMOTHY J. COONAN, BRIAN R. HUDGENS, AND BRIAN L. CYPHER
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1644/13-MAMM-A-057.1?journalCode=mamm