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Robotic Sage Grouse Help Researchers Understand Complicated Mating


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For Gail Patricelli, when a female sage-grouse dies, it’s arts and crafts time. She collects the corpses and taxidermies them to the top of a robotic tank kit. She then drives the sage grouse around the breeding grounds - known as leks - to try and understand the threatened birds.
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Science UtahBy Utah Public Radio