Wild animal tracking by PHS (Personal Handy phone System)

Abstract

This chapter presents three experiments of tracking wild animals with the help of Personal Handy phone System (PHS). Animal behavior monitoring, which is a part of nature environment monitoring, was done in order to find the wearable information network. PHS location devices were attached to urban animals such as raccoon dogs and crows and tracked them. Raccoon dogs were tracked by the PHS, which has human position-locating service. The result showed that the male raccoon dog was more often in the invalid area than female. In the crow experiments, in which lighter devices than 30 grams were required. The place where crows act in daytime turned out to be diverse. In conclusion PHS, which was originally developed for human use, was also available for urban animal tracking even if they are flying birds. Crow tracking with 28 grams PHS device was successfully achieved and the weight problem of the experiment was solved.