Back when I was a wee lad, I delighted in watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Every Sunday evening, I sat in rapt attention as Marlin Perkins narrated a new wildlife conservation research project that he had recently filmed with Jim Fowler. Particularly intriguing to me (technophilic child of the space race that I was) was their use of radio tracking collars and related devices to monitor and relocate particular animals as part of their research. At the time, such devices were among the most advanced forms of field-level scientific technology imaginable.