Foreword by Keith Gaddis
Prologue: a sea lion named baby Caruso
From the prairie to space and back
The bird information highway
A little ovenbird makes us think again
The early days of tracking
Walking like a cowboy
Our sputnik moment
Rats! Still so much to learn
The long march to ICARUS
Switching back to Europe
Who's in charge?
The ICARUS design starts
Tagging animals in the field
Getting closer to launch
Finally, we have liftoff
The rocky road of tag development
All systems go-or not
Animals at play
Putin invades Ukraine
Cosmic ideas from Aristotle to Humboldt
Berta, the earthquake cow
The internet of animals
Epilogue: ICARUS flies faster, farther
Afterword: a glance into a bright future
Acknowledgments
Appendix: initial ICARUS projects
Index.