How Far Does Wildlife Roam? Ask the âInternet of Animalsâ Planet An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space â shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement. By Sonia Shah Shyama Golden ââIâm going to do a set of coos,â Calandra Stanley whispered into the radio. The Georgetown ornithologist and her team had been hunting cuckoos, in an oak-and-hickory forest on the edge of a Southern Illinois cornfield, for weeks. Droplets of yesterdayâs rain slid off the leaves above to those below in a steady drip. In the distance, bullfrogs croaked from a shallow lake, where locals go ice fishing in winter.