The golden age of animal tracking also has a dark side.
Technological advances in animal tracking devices (biologgers) have
turned movement ecology into a discipline itself (Nathan et al. 2008).
This area has drastically grown, as evidenced by the 13.5% annual
growth rate in the number of studies registered during the last two
decades in Movebank, the main repository for animal movement data
(www.movebank.org). However, many of these projects are characterized by
small sample sizes, and often they do not generate any scientific
knowledge (Campbell et al. 2015), which could lead to a trivialization
of biologging and its ethical implications.