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I have a massive collection of science coffee table books, ones filled with beautiful imagery

and stories from history.

My favorite has always been Moon, which included retouched photos from the Apollo missions.

Well, I have a new book to add to this collection, Where the Animals Go, a new book on wildlife tracking by James

Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. James is a senior lecturer and geographer at the University of

College London, where he helps scientists processing the staggering amount of

data they collect in the field. Oliver is a former senior design editor at National Geographic,

and he's probably designed some of the most beautiful visualizations ever seen in the magazine.

What emerged from their collaboration is a stunning visual guide on how animals migrate and move in the environment. Pared with

stories from scientists monitoring these animals results in one of the most unique science tales

I've ever read. Imagine tracking the daily commute of a chimpanzee troop in Africa as they decide

where to search for food while avoiding all the human traffic

out there, where Albatross flights as they circle the entire Arctic searching for food

and mates and all of this done through the eyes of individual animals. One of my favorite

quotes from the book is this, quote, location is everything. And the way we

study this is the same whether it relates to an ant, a diving whale, or a person with a smartphone,

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