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Letter: Beast bugging

Published 30 January 2008

From Marc Isaacs

Your recent article about attaching cameras to animals to monitor their behaviour (19 January, p 22) got me thinking about the problem of the weight of the devices. Could this be avoided by distributing them throughout, say, a flock of birds? Perhaps one bird could carry a camera and low-power transmitter, with another carrying a receiver and storage device. This might mean that no individual bird has to carry anything excessively heavy.

Newport, Gwent, UK

Issue no. 2641 published 2 February 2008

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