If you insist on stopping every few miles to Instagram yourself into a scenic background, this is bound to happen. That's the price of being an influencer. But in this case, blame the scientists who didn't anticipate that the birds to which they had attached GPS tracking devices might fly into areas without network coverage. The BBC reports:
Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges. [...]
The birds left from southern Russia and Kazakhstan.
The journey of one steppe eagle, called Min, was particularly expensive, as it flew to Iran from Kazakhstan.
Min accumulated SMS messages to send during the summer in Kazakhstan, but it was out of range of the mobile network. Unexpectedly the eagle flew straight to Iran, where it sent the huge backlog of messages.
The price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Imran Shah
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