#2005 canadian gp

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2005 Canadian Grand Prix - Kimi Räikkönen, Michael Schumacher & Rubens Barrichello(my personal post-race highlights)

+ Bonus Jenson Button & Fernando Alonso DNF cameo

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Canadian Grand Prix Montreal 2005

🥇 Kimi Raikkonen

🥈Michael Schumacher

🥉Rubens Barrichello

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How Ronnie Peterson's death changed F1 safety forever

How Niki Lauda's crash changed F1 completely

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How a politician nearly became Argentina's 2nd F1 champion (Reutemann & FISA-FOCA war)

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How good was Kimi Raikkonen's hero in F1 (James Hunt)

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How Ford Cosworth changed F1 forever

How Lotus & Colin Chapman changed F1 forever

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Why Lewis Hamilton is wrong about diversity in F1 (Story of Prince Bira)

How McLaren redefined professionalism in F1 (Lauda, Prost & Ron Dennis)

Why Paul Tracy wrongly lost 2002 Indy 500 (CART vs IRL)

How Gilles Villeneuve’s death nearly ended Ferrari & F1 (FISA-FOCA war)

How Prost & Senna made F1 so popular (how the media reported on their rivalry)

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How 2007 damaged Fernando Alonso's F1 career

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Bornean orangutans are one of three orangutan species, all critically endangered. They thrive in carbon-rich peat swamp forests on the Indonesian island of Borneo. These habitats are also the sites of massive wildfires.

Indonesian wildfires in 2015 caused some of the worst fire-driven air pollution ever recorded. The fires were driven by an El Niño climatic cycle, which caused especially dry weather in the region.

Compared to other wildfires, peatland fires smolder underground and produce exceptionally high levels of hazardous gases and particulate matter—a leading cause of global pollution-related deaths and illnesses.

Orangutans are well known as an “indicator species” – one that can serve as a proxy for the health of an ecosystem. Changes in their environments often cause conspicuous changes in the apes’ health and behavior. Frequent and persistent exposure to toxic smoke could have severe consequences for orangutans and other wildlife.

Toxic air pollution also poses serious health and safety risks for researchers. However, remote sensing techniques, such as satellite images, GPS data, and acoustic monitoring, are increasingly popular ways to track wildlife populations and see how creatures respond to changes in their environments.

I have studied the behavior, ecology, and acoustic communication of wild primates in Indonesia since 2005. In a new study, my coauthors and I investigated how wild orangutans in Borneo were affected by toxic emissions from Indonesia’s 2015 peatland wildfires—by studying their voices.

Around the world, wildfires are on the rise. They often produce a thick blanket of haze that contains diverse hazardous gases and particulate matter, or PM. Most recently, smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the U.S. East Coast and Midwest in June 2023, turning skies orange and triggering public health alerts.

Studies have shown that human health risks from wildfire smoke include respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, systemic inflammation, and premature death. Much less is known about how smoke affects wildlife, but in a pair of studies published in 2021 and 2022, scientists at the California National Primate Research Center reported alarming findings.

After less than two weeks of exposure to high concentrations of particulate matter—in particular, ultrafine particles measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which are known as PM2.5—captive rhesus macaques suffered a spike in pregnancy loss. What’s more, surviving fetuses and infants suffered long-term effects on lung capacity, immune responses, inflammation, cortisol levels, behavior, and memory.

During Indonesia’s 2015 fires, Borneo’s air had particulate matter concentrations nearly an order of magnitude higher than the levels in these studies. This made the potential implications for people and wildlife who gasped through Indonesia’s wildfire smoke for nearly two months extremely worrying.

I was studying wild orangutans in the forests of Indonesian Borneo when the 2015 fires started. My colleagues and I at the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station tracked local fires and patrolled nearby hot spots to assess the risk of fire spreading to our research area.

Wearing N95 masks, we continued to monitor orangutans in hopes of learning how the animals were coping with encroaching fires and thick smoke. A few weeks into the fire season, I noticed a difference in the sound of the males’ “long call,” which was the focus of my research.

Long calls are booming vocalizations that can be heard over distances of more than half a mile (1 kilometer). Orangutans are semi-solitary and live in dispersed communities, so these calls serve an important social role. Adult males make them to advertise their prowess to listening females in the area and to scare off any eavesdropping rival males. A couple of weeks after the smoke had appeared, I thought these males sounded raggedy—a little like humans who smoke a lot.

We observed the orangutans for 44 days during the fires, until large blazes encroached on our study area. At that point, we stopped the study to help extinguish the blazes with local firefighting teams and other government and nonprofit groups. Fires burned in our study area for three weeks.

Using data that we collected before, during, and after the fires, I led an analysis of this Bornean orangutan population’s behavior and health. My coauthors and I found that in the weeks after the fires, the apes reduced their activities—resting more and traveling shorter distances—and consumed more calories than normal.

But although they were eating more and moving less, we found by collecting and testing the apes’ urine that they were still burning stored fat—a sign that they somehow were using up more energy. We hypothesized that the cause might be inflammation—the swelling, fever, pain, and fatigue that human and animal bodies experience in response to infection or injury.

Studies have shown that when humans are exposed to particulate matter, they can experience inflammation, both in their respiratory tracts and throughout their bodies. We wanted to know whether inhaling wildfire smoke would cause vocal changes in orangutans, just as inhaling cigarette smoke does in humans.

For this study, my coauthors and I carefully analyzed more than 100 sound recordings of four male orangutans that we followed before and during the fires to measure their vocal responses to wildfire smoke. Research has shown that a suite of vocal features—including pitch, vocal harshness or hoarseness, and shaky voice—reflects the underlying health and condition of both human and nonhuman animals. We were looking for acoustic clues about how this toxic air might be affecting the orangutans.

During the fires and for several weeks after the smoke cleared, these males called less frequently than usual. Normally, orangutans call about six times a day. But during the fires, their call rate was cut in half. Their voices dropped in pitch, showing more vocal harshness and irregularities.

Collectively, these features of vocal quality have been linked to inflammation, stress, and disease—including COVID-19—in human and nonhuman animals.

Increasingly frequent and prolonged exposure to toxic smoke could have severe consequences for orangutans and other animals. Our research highlights the urgent need to understand the long-term and far-ranging effects of peatland fires in Indonesia, which is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world.

By uncovering the linkages between acoustic, behavioral, and energetic shifts in orangutans, our study highlights a way for scientists and wildlife managers to safely monitor the health of orangutans and other animals. Using passive acoustic monitoring to study vocally active indicator species, like orangutans, could unlock critical insights into wildfire smoke’s effects on wildlife populations worldwide.

Wendy M. Erb is a postdoctoral associate in conservation bioacoustics at Cornell University.

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friends i bought a 2005/2006 renault f1 hat for when i go to the canadian gp!! i can’t tell you how EXCITED I AM. i am a fernando alonso girl until the day after the end of time i fear

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IN NUMBERS: The amazing stats behind Red Bulls century of F1 wins

Red Bull made history at the Canadian Grand Prix as Max Verstappen’s dominant win gave the team their 100th victory in the sport. To mark the occasion, we put together a list of the standout numbers from their impressive run, covering drivers, circuits and other eye-catching statistics… -- 19 -- Red Bull’s 100 race wins to date have been achieved across 19 seasons, with the Milton Keynes team making their F1 debut back in 2005. After several podium finishes, they won for the first time at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix. READ MORE: Verstappen wins Canadian GP to claim Red Bull’s 100th victory and equal Senna’s tally -- 30 -- From that aforementioned first win to their most recent in Canada last weekend, Red Bull have triumphed at 30 different circuits over the years – spanning five continents (Asia, North America, South America, Europe and Oceania). -- 7 -- Monaco is Red Bull’s most successful circuit thanks to a tally of seven victories, while Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina (six) and Japan’s Suzuka, Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps, Malaysia’s Sepang, Brazil’s Interlagos and Spain’s Barcelona (all five) are also particularly profitable venues for the outfit. This feature is currently not available because you need to provide consent to functional cookies. Please update your cookie preferences Red Bull celebrate 100th F1 win with Verstappen victory in Canada -- 41 -- Of Red Bull’s victories so far, 41 of them have been achieved by reigning double world champion Verstappen. He started that list by winning on his debut for the team at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix. -- 38 -- Next in the table is Sebastian Vettel, who claimed 38 race wins – and four world titles – during his stint at Red Bull from 2009 through 2014, before leaving for Ferrari and later joining Aston Martin. READ MORE: Verstappen hails ‘incredible’ milestone as he helps Red Bull hit a century of F1 wins -- 5 -- Overall, five drivers have won races with Red Bull since their debut: the aforementioned Verstappen and Vettel, along with Mark Webber (nine wins) Daniel Ricciardo (seven) and current driver Sergio Perez (five). -- 52 -- More than half of Red Bull’s victories – more specifically, 52 – have come from pole position. However, the squad have won a race from as low as 14th on the grid – Verstappen turning this spot into the top step of the podium in Belgium in 2022. It was a momentous day for Verstappen and Red Bull in Canada -- 26 -- Meanwhile, more than a quarter of Red Bull’s victories have spearheaded a one-two finish. The first of these 26 perfect results came in China in 2009 via Vettel and Webber, with the most recent coming in Miami in 2023 via Verstappen and Perez. -- 17 -- Red Bull’s most successful season in terms of race wins was the 2022 campaign, in which they triumphed 17 times. Verstappen took 15 of those victories, while Perez contributed two. FACTS AND STATS: Red Bull match Mercedes’ best-ever season start as Hamilton takes 10th Montreal podium -- 4 -- Only four other teams have secured more than 100 wins in the history of F1. This group comprises Williams (114), Mercedes (125), McLaren (183) and Ferrari (242). -- 9 -- If Red Bull win again at the upcoming Austrian Grand Prix, the team would take 10 victories in a row for the first time. They previously won nine on the bounce with Vettel during the second half of his final title-winning season in 2013. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

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watching as far back as 2005 starts to get weird when it is mentioned that juan pablo montoya, who is leading the race, brought his son sebastian on his first f1 outing

(also I find it hilarious for the child of a mclaren driver to be using a maclaren buggy)

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Someone made an interesting point on Twitter - I know, who would've thought! - that Sk*Can has made a big deal in the past of sending that year's national medalists to the Olympics. They sent Vanessa and Paul to Vancouver over Weapo by a fraction of a point regardless of "scoring potential/international results", same with Larkyn over Alaine in 2018, and to some extent MT/M over I/M, although tbf Dylan was injured. Now they suddenly reverse course over this one very special team? Gimme a break.

You want an even stronger case in which Skate Canada went with the nationals results and not with scoring potential or a look at the future? Look no further than Tessa and Scott missing out on going to the Olympics in 2006.

During 2005/06 season Tessa and Scott competed as juniors internationally but as senior nationally. They won both of their junior GPs and JGPF, and then they competed at Canadian nationals. They finished 3rd overall, only 2.7 points behind the veterans Wing/Lowe. For Wing/Lowe it was the 11th season as seniors and their best results were two bronze medals at GPs and two bronze medals at 4CC. By all accounts Tessa and Scott were the up and coming team that will likely carry Skate Canada in the future. Even more than that, Tessa and Scott were actually 2nd in both the OD and the FD sections of the event and only lost because of the CD. Arguably, there was a strong case in favor of sending Tessa and Scott (and some arguments against of course) but Skate Canada went with the results of nationals and sent Wing/Lowe to the Olympics with Marie France and Patrice.

Funnily enough, Wing/Lowe had a total score of 166.40 points at the Olympics, Tessa and Scott earned 172.57 at Junior Worlds and they did it while performing only 7 elements in the FD compared to 9 by seniors which leads to a gap of almost 10 points in BV. While the scoring is not entirely comparable I think we can agree who had a bigger scoring potential between the two teams.

So yeah, it's not exactly the same case, but as you said, Skate Canada rarely ignores the results of Canadian nationals and it takes a very strong case in order for that to happen, and like you (and many many others) I don't think the case here was one that deserved it, it was all about promises that were likely made and strong strong politicking on J/R's behalf.

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What are some historic races you think every F1 fan should see? (aka I just got f1 tv and don't even know where to start with this archive)

Anon! I am so sorry, I did not see this until this morning :( 

I’ve thought long and hard about it, and these are my top races:

2019 Hockenheim - it was wild and it was wet, and I think we were all collectively screaming after the first 20 minutes

Also from 2019 the BrazilianGP was top 

2011 Canadian Grand Prix - it was long and it was, once again, wet AF. It was so long that this GP prompted FIA to change the rules on just how long a GP could last 

2012 BrazilianGP - Interlagos is a cruel mistress, especially if your name is Fernando Alonso

2008 BrazilianGP - honestly, Brazil is one dramatic bitch which means A+ on track drama until the very last corner

2005 San Marino - probably one of the most iconic battles of Alonso vs Schumacher. I was young but boyyyy, do I remember that blue Renault vs red Ferrari quite clearly. Michael just could not get past in the end, but he did try and try hard 

2016 SpanishGP - the two Mercs crashing on the first lap? Max’s first win? His battles vs Seb on threadbare tyres? Iconic 

Also, 2016-2017-2018 AzerbaijaniGP were iconic as well - WELL DONE BAKU

So those are the most recent that I can think of, but if anyone else would like to chime in, please do! 

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The Greatest of All Time - Imola Grand Prix review

It’s Christmas in 2004, and Maranello is a happy place. Ferrari has just crushed their opposition, winning 15 of the 18 races to claim a sixth consecutive constructors’ championship. And it wasn’t just another title: this was one of their most dominant, the F2004 a car so quick that in their first test at their private track in Fiorano they thought something was wrong with the track sensors. This hadn’t quite been the same level of dominance as 2002, when they scored as many points as all the other teams combined, but was pretty close.

Going into the next season, everyone expected Ferrari would be fending off challengers but staying on top. Just as in 2003, the competitors should be closing the gap a bit, but the Scuderia should remain the team to beat. Such was the quality of the 2004 car that the team led by Ross Brawn decided to evolve the car to adapt to the regulations tweaks of 2005, rather than work on an entirely new design.

But as the cars hit the track in Melbourne, it became clear the competition had more than caught up. The 2005 car was only supposed to make his debut in round 5 in Barcelona, but given the poor results in the first two races, its debut was brought forward to round 3 in Bahrain. It didn’t matter: plagued with aerodynamics issues, a gearbox too big and Bridgestone tyres that were losing the performance battle to Michelin, the F2005 won a single race, and only because all the teams using Michelin refused to race in the now infamous US GP, due to safety concerns.

At the time, it seemed impossible such a downturn in fortune could happen. The all-conquering Ferrari, the first team ever to win 6 championships in a row, had fallen off a cliff, finishing a distant third in the standings. No one had seen that coming, least of all those running the team itself.

What does this have to do with this weekend’s race? Obviously, everything. As expected since pretty much the first round of the season, Mercedes has just confirmed their seventh consecutive world title with four races to spare, beating Ferrari’s record, while reaching performance levels similar to those 2002 and 2004 titles. Just like Ferrari, they are at their peak, but the difference is that they show no signs of slowing down or becoming the c-word: complacent.

Ferrari’s 2005 season is a cautionary tale for any team dominating their sport: don’t take anything for granted; this is exactly what Mercedes have always done. Through every regulation change, they have continuously pushed the boundaries on every single level, taking every defeat as a chance to improve, and turning every setback into an opportunity. In what team principal Toto Wolff has described as a relentless drive to perfection, they keep on pushing when most, convinced their superiority would keep them ahead, would have relaxed.

A good example is the improvement made to their engine in this off-season. Clearly beaten by Ferrari in 2019, the team led by Andy Cowell worked to get back on top, not knowing that the only reason the Ferrari engines were so ahead was due to some shenanigans that weren’t entirely legal. The result is that the Mercedes engine took a leap forward in 2020, while Ferrari’s moved backwards, making the increased performance on the back of the Silver Arrows look even more impressive.

There is regular debate among F1 fans about who is the greatest driver of all time; now that Hamilton is beating pretty much every meaningful record, this debate is hotter than ever. But there is less debate about which is the best team, and that is because there are very few arguments left against this incarnation of Mercedes. It’s not just that they make the best car: it’s also that they keep winning even when they don’t have it. There were periods throughout 2017 and 2018 in which Ferrari had the best car on the grid, but due to driver performance or strategy calls, Mercedes would end up winning races that, on paper, it shouldn’t have won.

To me, there is no doubt that this is the best team F1 has ever seen. Through regulation changes, personnel departing and adversaries’ improving, they have kept pushing, onwards and upwards, relentlessly searching those marginal gains, those milliseconds that keep adding up to big advantages. Once this phase is over and someone else is spraying the champagne, we will have the time to really appreciate what they have achieved. But we are not there yet, and their records will keep improving, their chunk of F1 history becoming larger and larger.

Nothing lasts forever, especially if you don’t work hard to keep it going; this is particularly true in F1, where nothing stands still for long: blink, and someone has replaced you on the top step of the podium. That’s what happened at Maranello when preparing that 2005 car. That moment is still to happen to Mercedes, but no one is betting on it happening just yet.

Talking points

•  The rookie class of 2019 has been having a torrid time of late, and if Norris at least got himself on the points after three scoreless races, the weekend was far less kind to his friends. Russell had a first points finish within his grasp when he crashed, in P10, behind the safety car. He will pick himself up and be better for it, but right now it has to hurt. It’s not the first time either, as he lost opportunities at Hockenheim last year and at Mugello. He really needs to take his first points to get this monkey off his back.

Albon, on the other hand, is running out of opportunities to show Red Bull he deserves another year in the senior team. He spun at the restart and ended up at the back of the field, but even before that he was not capable of making a dent in the race. Granted, overtaking at Imola is not easy, but this was another lacklustre weekend from him. Even those like him who hope he does get the nod are finding it hard to come up with reasons why Red Bull should keep him.

•  Could Daniel Ricciardo be wondering if he made the right call in choosing McLaren over Renault? While the papaya team are moving backwards, Renault are improving by leaps and bounds, and this weekend saw him score his second podium in three races. The French team are probably now the favourites to claim third in the championship, which might make him wonder if he should have waited for a few races of 2020 before making this decision.

•  This podium was ultimately thrown away by Racing Point’s decision to pit Perez behind the Safety Car, when the Mexican was running third. To be fair to them, it was a hard call, since they had no way of knowing what those behind them would do. If Perez had been the only one staying out, he would have been vulnerable and would all be criticising the team for not pitting him. In any case, the only reason Checo was in contention anyway was the brilliant strategy to run long on the medium tyres, that had allowed him to leapfrog pretty much the whole midfield.

•  On the other side of the pink garage, Lance Stroll is in dire need of a reset. His Monza podium is looking like a curse, with the Canadian driver scoreless since then. To add injury to a dismal weekend, he even hit a mechanic in his second pit stop.

•  First double-points finish of the season for Alfa Romeo, with a rocket start from Giovinazzi and another steady race from Kimi. Their are winning the battle of the backmarkers, and it will take a miracle for Haas to take P8 from them now.

•  I wrote in my preview about drivers about to drop off the grid for 2021 and hoping they can enjoy and give us some good memories. That was exactly what Kvyat did: as his unlucky teammate was forced to retire from P5, the Russian had a fantastic race, clinging on to the back of Leclerc and Albon’s cars, and then using a fresh set of soft tyres to beat them and Perez at the restart. For a moment it seemed like he could even challenge Ricciardo for the podium, but, as it was, P4 was a brilliant result. Helmut Marko all but confirmed he would lose his seat at the end of the year, but if that is to happen, this is an impressive calling card for his job search.

•  So much talk about track limits, weekend after weekend. To me, this is the simplest of debates: the track limits are the white lines, and if you are going over them, you need to brake earlier. Done. Drivers who want to not have to worry about this should probably be considering moving to IndyCar.

•  McLaren are still in the fight for third in the championship, but not by much. They continue to maximise their results almost every weekend, but this time around they didn’t seem to be able to compete even with AlphaTauri. The development of the car has brought them backwards, and this must be a big concern for Andreas Seidl. With the cars remaining largely the same next year, they need to start making progress on this front sooner rather than later; otherwise, losing P3 in 2020 will be the least of their concerns.

•  Can Esteban Ocon get a lucky break? His return season has been underwhelming, but his luck with reliability has been abismal as well.

•  Oh, and while we are at it, can Vettel get a lucky break? Fantastic race from the German with a broken front end plate, only to be wrecked by a pit stop 11 (eleven!) seconds slower than normal. 2021 can’t come soon enough for him.

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Some animals really go the distance to find food, a mate or a place to raise their young. And now, thanks to scientists’ tracking efforts, we know just how far some land species will travel.

Using decades of scientific observations, researchers determined round-trip migration distances for a number of animals. Caribou have the longest migrations, with two different herds in Alaska and Canada traveling up to 1,350 kilometers per year, the team reports October 25 in Scientific Reports. That’s a little less than the distance from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore.

Gray wolves (Canis lupus) aren’t usually migratory, but a Canadian group thought to follow caribou is the only other tracked species that migrated over 1,000 kilometers in a year, the scientists found.

In the contiguous United States, mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) have the longest annual land migrations, traveling up to 772 kilometers in Wyoming and Idaho. Other animals performing annual long-haul migrations — each around 600 to 700 kilometers round trip — include the blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in the Serengeti of Africa, and the Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa) and Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) in Asia.

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in Wyoming and Montana migrate about 300 kilometers, while pronghorns in Canada travel some 435 kilometers per year.

Some caribou in Alaska and Canada have the longest annual migration route of any land animal, in part because these herds have lots of room to roam, a study finds. Gray wolves aren’t usually migratory, but a Canadian group thought to follow caribou is the only other tracked species that migrated over 1,000 kilometers in a year. (Source: K. Joly et al/Scientific Reports 2019)

CREDIT: C. Chang

The researchers calculated the migration distances by measuring a straight line between the two migratory end points, and then doubling that for a round-trip figure. While the distances are impressive, they are still far short of the thousands of kilometers traveled each year by migrating insects (SN: 4/5/18) or birds (SN: 2/7/17), which can be less encumbered by infrastructure.  

“For land animals, something as small as a road could be a barrier,” says Claire Teitelbaum, an ecologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who was not involved in this study. “A fence or wall certainly would be.”

Infrastructure, including roads and cities, already has hampered some animals’ land migrations, scientists say. And climate change could be having an effect by altering environments and the availability of foods, Teitelbaum says. Previous research had found that a herd of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Canada, for example, migrated up to 1,500 kilometers annually in the early 2000s when the herd had more members, instead of the current maximum of 1,350 kilometers. But it’s not clear exactly what caused that journey to be shortened.

Only 7 percent of unbroken land patches worldwide are larger than 100 square kilometers, leading some scientists to predict shorter land migrations to come. “We will see migration distances declining, rather than increasing, into the future,” says Marlee Tucker, an ecologist at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, who wasn’t involved with the work. “These [natural] areas are shrinking.”

Understanding where animals roam could help scientists and policy makers prioritize which areas to preserve. That information could also help them decide where to establish wildlife corridors — long strips of natural land or tunnels beneath roads that connect animal habitats.

Most animals with the longest migrations were in Alaska or Canada, where there are large swathes of wild terrain. “The north is much less developed than the lower 48 [states], so there’s much more room for those migrations,” says coauthor Kyle Joly, a National Park Service wildlife biologist based at the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in northern Alaska. Because temperatures can change drastically in the region, and vegetation in some places is scarce, “these animals need to roam over greater distances,” Joly says.

The researchers also determined the total cumulative distance traveled in a year for the animals in the study using GPS data. While the team expected that the large, hooved animals would cover long distances, the data on cumulative distances revealed a surprising find, Joly says. Predators covered more total ground than their prey.

Predators tend to cover more total ground annually than the prey animals they hunt, such as these khulans (Equus hemionus hemionus) in Mongolia, a study finds. Some gray wolves traveled roughly 2,000 kilometers more than the khulans they stalked.

CREDIT:  PETRA KACZENSKY

The most well-traveled animal was a gray wolf in Mongolia that covered 7,247 kilometers in one year while being tracked from 2003 to 2005. Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) and Mongolian wild asses, also called khulans (Equus hemionus hemionus), also surpassed 5,000 kilometers in a year.

In Alaska and Canada, gray wolves racked up more distance than the caribou they hunted. The same held true for gray wolves stalking khulans in Mongolia, as well as brown bears (Ursus arctos) hunting Alaskan moose (Alces alces gigas).

“The total scope of the movements is important to let people know what the scale of the conservation … measures need to be,” Joly says.

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GPF 2019 Preview

My goodness, we’re only halfway through the season and yet already Exhausted. Will we find out this time what a score is? Honestly, it’s not looking good, but hope dies last.

Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON FRA

Age: 24/25

Started Skating Together: 2005

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 226.61

Rhythm Dance: Aerobics Class

Free Dance: Mediocre Open Mic Night

This might sound like an out there prediction, but we think these scrappy lil underdogs just might pull out the win! It's not like their season's best is fourteen points higher than anyone else's this season or anything.

Oh wait.

This is Papadakis/Cizeron. They might be coming into this event with just a bit of an advantage. These are are at the point where they could skate to anything and be rewarded, yet they never venture far behind what’s been working. Their rhythm dance is more of a departure for them that usual but as fun as the 80s aerobics class theme can be, we’d like to see more commitment, more over the top, more bright colored leg warmers for everyone! But this has been a very successful program, setting a new world record scoring over 90 points for the first time ever. There has been something of a split in fandom over their free dance. Some think it's a revolutionary masterpiece, others think it's pretentious garbage. At the risk of seeming like uncultured rubes, this is the point in the season where we have to admit we don't really get the difference between skating to spoken word and just...lyrics? Interpreting lyrics set to music is not a new concept in ice dance and we just don’t see the innovation or massive risk in interpreting words with background music. It’s a lovely program and if you like their style, you like their style. But there is no need to call this something it’s not. Papadakis/Cizeron do continue to set a new standard of effortlessness and elegance to their every movement, which certainly sets them apart from other teams, though it’s debatable if it should set them THIS far apart. We do admire their commitment to carrying out their vision for ice dance, even if it's not a vision we personally share. It's going to be interesting to see if that scoring gap holds up, not only here but for the rest of the season.

Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov RUS

Age: 24/28

Started Skating Together: 2014

Coach: Alexander Zhulin

Season's Best: 212.15

Rhythm Dance: Twizzle the Disastering

Free Dance: Twizzaster 2: Electric Boogaloo

The reigning silver medalists at this event will be attempting to break Papadakis/Cizeron's domination, and at least in the rhythm dance, they're the only team that's come close so far to their scores. Singing in the Rain is a charmingly traditional program for them that really highlights their ability to sell the classic side of musicals. We keep saying this isn’t the perfect fit of last season’s tango, but they’ve absolutely got the on-ice charm to do this program justice. Their twizzles in both programs remain a hold-your-breath moment, and at this point are more a stylistic feature of Nikita's twizzling than anything worth noting. Their free dance is lovely, but without natural highs and lows from the music requires a more passionate, polished performance than the ones they've been able to deliver thus far. It's a pretty program, but it needs a little more oomph, something they can hopefully deliver this competition. This event last season was a defining moment for Sinitsina/Katsalapov turning two GP silvers into GPF silver and finishing as the top Russian team. If they can clean up and deliver their free dance with more energy and excitement, it could be the breakthrough they need to challenge for gold.

Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier CAN

Age: 27/28

Started Skating Together: 2011

Coach: Carol Lane

Season's Best: 209.01

Rhythm Dance: What Happened to Medal

Free Dance: Vincent’s Distantly Related Cousin

In their first trip to GPF in five years, Gilles/Poirier are aiming for that breakthrough into medal contender status that they've been teetering on for so long. They’ve established themselves as a top team to watch but are now working to contend for podium spots at major events. This season has already brought their first ever GP gold, and they've got a great shot at a medal. This has got all the makings of finally being their season, after year after year of almosts and near misses. Their rhythm dance is OTT in the best possible way with so many intricate choreographic details. In a season that's had so many stand out rhythm dances for us, theirs remains memorable. They have such big personalities that programs like this are just such a natural fit for them. Their free dance is more sedate, as subtle and pared down as their rhythm dance is over the top. While not our style, Piper and Paul have a way of making us like everything they do. The only Canadian dance team in the final, Gilles/Poirier will really be pushing for that podium and the chance to establish themselves among the top teams before the world championships in Montreal. If they can get one of the podium positions here, they'll be set up well for getting a medal in March.

Madison Hubbell/ Zachary Donohue USA

Age: 28/28

Started Skating Together: 2011

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 209.55

Rhythm Dance: Let's Be Dad(dy)

Free Dance: A Something is Born (will see if it’s a star)

The US National champions have had the longest break to work on their programs, and honestly we're intrigued to see what changes they've made. Their rhythm dance gives us some of the most jarring whiplash between the sheer quality of their skating and the… Questionable music choice, and yet seems to be the better received of their two programs, having won the rhythm dance but not the free at both GPs. Their edges are so deep and their pattern so huge and sweeping, and they seem to really love performing this program no matter what the fans think. It’s a program they’ve wanted to skate for years and there is something to be said for being committed to your material and showing your enjoyment while skating. Their free dance has come up just short in direct competition with two of the other finalists here. We’d agree with the most common criticism that the program lacks a bit of direction with such a brief start using Shallow. They seem to have made some changes to their free dance, and we're interested to see how that turns out. Last season’s GPF champions obviously have much stiffer competition this year with Papadakis/Cizeron back, but they’ve also got a pre-US Nationals battle on their hands with a refreshed Chock/Bates’ rising scores. Having had plenty of time to rest and tweak their programs, they should be in great shape for fending off their rivals, and maybe even closing the gap to the very top.

Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS

Age: 24/26

Started Skating Together: 2006

Coach: Alexander Svinin and Irina Zhuk

Season's Best: 208.81

Rhythm Dance: Costumes Aren't A Girl's Best Friend

Free Dance: Cry Me A Timberlake

Following dress drama at Skate America and a hair clip mishap at NHK, Stepanova/Bukin will honestly be hoping to make it through their rhythm dance with no costume/styling malfunctions. But also they were just one spot away from the podium at this event a year ago, and while the competition is tougher this season, they’ve likely had enough “almosts”. In spite of the costume and hair struggles, they've continued to maintain their position as fan favorites as well as place strong seconds at both their GPs. They even managed to defeat Hubbell/Donohue in the free dance portion on home ice. That free dance has drawn some, in our opinion, very reaching comparisons to copying Papadakis/Cizeron’s style. Come on, no one can own black mesh and lyrical music. And mixing that lyrical music with some JT is a decidedly Stepanova/Bukin type of program choice. A choice that had us clutching our pearls in fear prior to their season debut, but it's really well edited and conceived. The emotion and tension builds really naturally throughout, ending dramatically with the two at odds. The two programs contrast well and show different sides of their skating-- the showier, more theatrical rhythm dance, the more naturalistic and flowing yet dramatic free. Challenging Sinitsina/Katsalapov regardless of where either team finishes would be invaluable looking ahead to Russian nationals in a few weeks.

Madison Chock/ Evan Bates USA

Age: 27/30

Started Skating Together: 2011

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 208.55

Rhythm Dance: 2 Hot 2 Darn

Free Dance: Excessive Amounts of Egyptian Hands

After missing last season’s GP series entirely due to injury, Chock/Bates are back in the final and with the second highest free dance score of the season so far at that. Since their post-Olympic coaching change they've seemed reenergized and have garnered a new fan base alongside their improved flow and added softness in their skating all while keeping all the qualities that have always made them great like their killer lifts and Madi’s expression. Rhythm dance slow-mo replays are often just Madi’s face and truly that’s the way it should be. But speaking of the whole RD, it’s fun, showy, and has been pulling in GOE and PCS even when the levels haven’t been there. And that’s exactly what they’ll need to match their best free dance score that makes them more than competitive for the podium spots. Their free dance has really split the fandom, and we find ourselves a little undecided. It's certainly a memorable program that's different from not only anything anyone else is skating to or has done in the past, but their own oeuvre, forcing the judges to see them in a different light. There are a number of stunning highlights, that ending pose in particular, and their use of their bodies to make striking shapes on the ice is possibly the best in the world right now. It's been pulling massive scores from the judges, and is likely to continue to do so, so if they can bring the technical prowess that they have in past seasons, it's going to be hard to deny them. If they just don't put themselves into a hole in the RD, not only do they have a real strong chance for a medal, but they might even start closing that gap to the top. 

[f1]

Horner hails Red Bull's 'incredible achievement' after 'sensational' Verstappen seals team's 100th F1 victory in Montreal

Christian Horner hailed Red Bull’s 100th win this weekend at the Canadian Grand Prix as an “incredible achievement” – before also delivering his verdict on whether his team can win every race this season. Following Max Verstappen’s victory in Montreal this weekend, Red Bull became just the fifth team in Formula 1 history to reach the 100-win landmark – after Ferrari (242), McLaren (183), Mercedes (125), and Williams (114). MONDAY MORNING DEBRIEF: How Ferrari banished their qualifying blues with strong Montreal recovery Horner has overseen all 100 of those victories since taking charge of the team upon their entry into the sport in 2005. And speaking to Sky Sports F1 following the Canadian Grand Prix, Horner paid tribute to his team. “To get a century of victories for the whole team is an incredible achievement. Not just here but for all the people, the men and women back in the team that put in all the long hours,” acknowledged Horner. “A hundred races is a lot, but a hundred wins, that’s 27% of all the races we’ve entered we’ve won. It is an incredible, incredible statistic.” This feature is currently not available because you need to provide consent to functional cookies. Please update your cookie preferences Red Bull celebrate 100th F1 win with Verstappen victory in Canada It was also Verstappen’s 41st victory in the sport, with all coming behind the wheel of a Red Bull race car. When it was put to Horner that the Dutch driver had won 41% of the team’s races, he replied: “Max has just been sensational this weekend. READ MORE: Verstappen wins Canadian GP to claim Red Bull’s 100th victory and equal Senna’s tally “It was a tricky race for him today because of the tyre temperatures. I think for all the guys I think was tough out there; it was quite cool, and tyres weren’t in a happy window.” Red Bull have won all eight races so far this season – with Verstappen having won six and Sergio Perez also winning twice – and Horner was also asked whether winning every Grand Prix this year was possible. This feature is currently not available because you need to provide consent to functional cookies. Please update your cookie preferences 2023 Canadian Grand Prix: Verstappen crosses the line to take his 41st F1 victory and equal Ayrton Senna’s tally “We’re just taking things one race at a time. I don’t think you let your mind drift too far in the future,” Horner answered. “So many things can wrong. Can we? Yes. Will we? Who knows. “Because there are so many variables in this game, we just take things one race at a time. The team are doing an incredible job, Max is driving out of his skin at the moment. Just collectively, the team are doing an incredible job.” via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com