Editing Telemetry (section)

==={{anchor|Fisheries and wildlife research and management}}Fishery and wildlife research and management===
{{main|Wildlife radio telemetry}}
[[File:A bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) worker with a transponder attached to its back, visiting an oilseed rape flower.png|thumb|A [[Bombus terrestris|bumblebee]] worker with a transponder attached to its back, visiting an [[oilseed rape]] flower]]
Telemetry is used to study wildlife,<ref>{{cite web|title=Marine Wildlife Telemetry|url=http://www.sealtag.org/index.html|publisher=Pinniped Ecology Applied Research Laboratory|access-date=30 January 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215222049/http://www.sealtag.org/index.html|archive-date=15 February 2012}}</ref> and has been useful for monitoring threatened species at the individual level.  Animals under study can be outfitted with instrumentation tags, which include sensors that measure temperature, diving depth and duration (for marine animals), speed and location (using [[GPS]] or [[Argos system|Argos]] packages).  Telemetry tags can give researchers information about animal behavior, functions, and their environment. This information is then either stored (with archival tags) or the tags can send (or transmit) their information to a satellite or handheld receiving device.<ref>{{cite web|title=What Is Telemetry?|url=http://www.sealtag.org/What%20Is%20Telemetry.html|publisher=Pinniped Ecology Applied Research Laboratory|access-date=25 July 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315003715/http://www.sealtag.org/What%20Is%20Telemetry.html|archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> Capturing and marking wild animals can put them at some risk, so it is important to minimize these impacts.<ref>Livezey, K.B. 1990. Toward the reduction of marking-induced abandonment of newborn ungulates. Wildlife Society Bulletin 18:193–203.</ref>