getMovebankAnimals belongs to the Movebank browsing functions and returns a data.frame from the requested study that includes among others the individual_id, tag_id, deployment_id, sensor_type_id which are the internal ids of Movebank, the tag_local_identifier, local_identifier which are the ids uploaded to Movebank by the user and other information if available as e.g. death_comments, sex, taxon_canonical_name, etc.