Free loan of a GPS tracking device for your cat

Cat Tracker
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Ever wondered where your cat ventures to? Now’s your chance to find out, with Cat Tracker. The project is designed for cat owners and school classes to get involved…
How to participate
For cat owners in South Australia, we will loan you a GPS tracking device for your cats (for free!). They are easy-to-use, and will help you discover the places where your cat goes.
To participate, you first complete our online survey which includes a cat personality test. The survey is open to anyone 16+ in South Australia. At the end of the survey, select that you want to track your cat, and we will get in contact with you; we will track as many cats as we can – our initial target is to track 500 cats. Click here to participate by completing the online survey.
We will send you a report with the results – your cat’s personality and where your cat went (depending on which parts you complete).
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TRACKS OF CATS RECORDED SO FAR IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
For project updates, follow our facebook page: www.facebook.com/thediscoverycircle
Resources for teachers
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Snowy wearing a Cat Tracker GPS tracker
We have created extensive resources for teachers to use in the classroom. The resources provide cross-curriculum links to learning areas including science, mathematics, geography, history and the arts. We have suggested a learning framework and provide links to resources for Reception to Year 9 school students, which can easily be adapted for all age groups. Click here to access the teacher resources.
About the project
We are collaborating with researchers from Your Wildlife in the USA to bring Cat Tracker to South Australia. Click here to see the cat tracks recorded in the USA (click on a picture of a cat to see where that cat travelled). We will add a page of cat tracks from Australia as soon as they are available here (around mid-March 2015). Please spread the word!
We have developed four fact-sheets as part of the educational resources for this project. They include information about the taxonomy of cats, cat biology, the history of cats, and the differences between owned, semi-owned and un-owned cats. Click here to view the fact-sheets.