Detective gulls sniff out illegally dumped trash

• Autores: Conor Gearin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3085, 2016, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Meet Sea Gull, private eye. Garbage-loving gulls in Spain fitted with GPS trackers have led researchers to an illegal waste dumping site. Illegal dumping can be hard to spot because the perpetrators are often white-collar criminals who are good at covering their tracks. So Joan Navarro tried an unconventional way of finding these operations. He and colleagues at the Functional Ecology and Evolutionary Center--part of the French National Center for Scientific Research--took 19 yellow-legged gulls and fitted them with solar-powered GPS trackers that transmitted the birds' locations every five minutes.