Elk Island National Park staff are equipping bison with smart collars to find out where and why the buffalo roam.
The national park, 35 minutes east of Edmonton, is home to about 1,000 wood and plains bison. Ten female animals from each herd were randomly selected to wear the high-tech trackers, says Jonathan DeMoor, Elk Island National Park ecologist.
“Our GPS collars record a location every two hours and they transmit that data via satellite once a day so those maps are a snapshot of each point from one day,” DeMoor says.
Ecologist Jonathan DeMoor checks out a pen at Elk Island National Park where a
