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In return, when wild animals are equipped with data acquisition systems coupled with carefully designed
Argos beacons, data may be gathered on the ecosystems in which they live. This has been done, in
particular, for the olive ridley sea turtle in Guyana, in order to measure how the salinity and temperature of
its living environment vary at different depths.
In addition to the standard mouse and rat models, the so-called "exotic" animal models are still largely
unexplored mines of information that enable us to highlight, from the cell to the ecosystems, mechanisms
that are yet unknown and, at the same time, better understand our environment.
"Adult" rover in a colony of emperor penguins in Adélie Land (austral winter 2016)
© Clément Cornec/IPEV-IPHC