Call for a critical review of widespread use of animal tracking devices

Animal tracking has undergone a technological revolution providing insight
into biological details that were impossible to address until now.
However, the increasing ease of access to tracking devices (biologgers)
may lead to trivializing this technology. Consequently, many projects may
not extract as much scientific knowledge as possible and neglect the
ethical duties towards the tagged animals. Here we demonstrate this
process of trivialization empirically on a local and global scale and
propose some guidelines to avoid it.