Filed under: Cell Phones
The Society for the Study and Protection of the Mediterranean Seal (what a mouthful), or MOm, have fitted a baby monk seal with a cellular transmitter that will keep them updated via text message. After the seal was rescued in rough seas only a few hours after being born, MOm nursed the adorable creature back to health and trained it to survive on its own.
Before setting the newly feral seal free, researchers strapped it with a transmitter that will relay the seal’s position, depth, times spent in and out of the water, and swimming speed all via standard SMS messages. Thankfully for the researchers, the whole thing is automated.
The seal might have trouble banging out “I’m on the island of Rhodes” with those tiny little flippers.
From Textually.org
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