Fitness tracker data shows running too fast can be deadly for bearded dragons

Bearded dragons in backpacks reveal speed can be a killer

Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.

Fitness tracker data shows running too fast can be deadly for bearded dragons

New research that monitored the behavior of Australian central bearded dragons via tiny fitness trackers has revealed a surprising twist—the fastest lizards were more likely to die than the slower ones.

Faster Isn’t Always Better: The Unexpected Cost of Speed for Lizards

This blog post is provided by Kristoffer Wild and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Thermal performance curves, activity and  survival in a free-ranging ectotherm”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In this study on Australian central bearded dragons, Wild et al. challenge assumptions about locomotor performance and survival. Most of us instinctively believe that faster is better. Think of Olympic sprinters…

Fitness tracker data shows running too fast can be deadly for bearded

Fitness tracker data shows running too fast can be deadly for bearded dragons New research that monitored the behaviour of Australian central bearded dragons via tiny fitness tracker has revealed a surprising twist – the fastest lizards were most likely to die than the slower ones.