1. From the Prairie to Space and Back
2. The Bird Information Highway
3. A Little Ovenbird Makes Us Think Again
4. The Early Days of Tracking
5. Walking Like a Cowboy
6. Our Sputnik Moment
7. Rats! Still So Much to Learn
8. The Long March to ICARUS
9. Switching Back to Europe
10. Who's in Charge?
11. The ICARUS Design Starts
12. Tagging Animals in the Field
13. Getting Closer to Launch
14. Finally, We Have Liftoff
15. The Rocky Road of Tag Development
16. All Systems Go—or Not
17. Animals at Play
18. Putin Invades Ukraine
19. Cosmic Ideas from Aristotle to Humboldt
20. Berta, the Earthquake Cow
21. The Internet of Animals

Martin Wikelski is the director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and honorary professor of ornithology at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, assistant professor at the University of Illinois and associate professor at Princeton.
Keith Gaddis is the program manager for NASA’s Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting programs. An ecologist and biogeographer by training, he is a vocal advocate for the use of science in public decision-making.

"All we need to do is give animals a voice and our perception of the world could change forever. That's what author Martin Wikelski and his team of scientists believe, and this book shares their story for the first time. As they tag animals around the world with minuscule tracking devices, they link their movements to The International Space Station, which taps into the 'internet of animals': an astonishing network of information made up of thousands of animals communicating with each other and their environments. Called the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS, this phenomenal project is poised to change our world. Down on the ground, Wikelski describes animals' sixth sense first-hand. Farm animals become restless when earthquakes are imminent. Animals on the African plains sense when poachers are on the move. Frigatebirds in South America depart before hurricanes arrive."--