Monthly Archives: October 2018

Visualising cattle movement in Ireland

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Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. Or as this study found, the 1.3 million cattle movement events in Ireland in 2016 cover a cumulative distance of travelling to the moon and back 60 times. Guy McGrath explains the animation he and his colleagues created to highlight the magnitude of cattle movements and the biosecurity issues this poses.

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