An Elementary Guide to Practical Aspects of Radio Tracking Mammals

Abstract

Though ignorant of the technicalities of radios, my early use of radio tracking has meant that I have received many enquiries from graduate students wishing to make use of this technique; published papers make the methods sound easy, yet to a biologist the technicalities are unfamiliar. This brief introduction to purely practical aspects is based upon the information a naïve graduate needs to have digested before embarking on a radio tracking study.