Butterfly Tech is partnered with Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) to create a new way to monitor mother bear behaviors. Our team’s main goal is to minimize the time the VDGIF researchers spend locating the bears. The current collars use ultra-high frequency to locate the bears which is inefficient and time consuming. We are creating the next generation of animal tracking collars to better understand the behavior of mother bears and other future animals. We also attempt to use the data from the collars to re-home abandoned bear cubs with behaviorally sufficient surrogate mothers.