Flüfpecks – nikhil.io

Back in 2019 or so, my friend Mark asked me what I thought this image depicted. I was totally stumped and guessed fungal mycelia or birds. Drones? Terrible.

An aerial satellite map of a forested, lake-filled region overlaid with highly dense, scribbled lines representing tracking data of different wolf packs.

Nope, they’re wolf packs! 🐺 And the map shows how territorial wolves are. They created it “from 68,000+ GPS locations from 7 wolves in different packs during summer 2018.” The area here is the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem which is a giant forest way up north in Minnesota.

Here’s an updated version from 2023-2024.

A detailed satellite map of the same geographical region, outlining and naming specific wolf pack territories. A prominent yellow border defines a large central tracking zone, and a white line zig-zags horizontally through the upper half of the map.

Badass.