Many Israelis rarely leave home without a
cellphone. Starting this month several pelicans headed abroad will also be
equipped with SIM cards in an unusual attempt to track the movements of the
migrating birds.
The pelicans, which are making their way to
Africa, will start transmitting SMS messages from devices attached to their
bodies, in a joint project of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Small
World telecommunications company, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the
Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
One of the goals of the project is to monitor
the birds, some of which arrive in Israel malnourished, and determine how to
meet their nutritional needs without harming the livelihood of commercial fish
breeders.
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