How do scientists keep track of wild animal populations? One common method is tagging, but things can get complicated when those tags fall off.

In this episode, Math and Statistics PhD candidate Arjun Banik discusses his work developing mathematical models to better understand tag loss in wildlife studies.

Read about Arjun’s work on Dolly Varden, a species of Arctic fish, here: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfas-2025-0047

Music credits:
“hollywood” courtesy of mobygratis

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch