Ubiquitous Computing is offering increasing opportunities to know more about our world through the soaring availability of cheap and small but yet powerful devices. I will report about various aspects of my collaboration with zoologists for the monitoring of animal social networks and movement patterns. The work has various aims:

• First to design and build the technologies which allow this to happen in a eco-friendly way in terms of communicating the data through the network effectively, in terms of power awareness and sensing trade offs and in terms of management of the network, e.g., bugs and reprogramming.

• Secondly,  to collaborate with zoologists in devising techniques which allow the analysis of the unprecedented results  gathered. Challenges faced in this area include the maybe limited samples gathered or the fact that new metrics might need to be devised for temporal contact network analysis.