Educating Hungry Ravens with 3D Printed Tortoise Shells
The number of Gopher tortoises has been slowly declining in the Southwestern US according to conservationists. One of the reason of that decline ? Predators. Ravens commonly target young gopher tortoises for their meal. The solution ? 3D printed decoy shells to fool the hungry ravens. But ravens are extremely clever and will probably won’t be fooled for long. The idea would be to educate them instead. How ? Certainly not by hunting them down but by spraying the decoy shell with a non-toxic substance that the ravens find highly unappealing.
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The Gopher Tortoise Council (GTC) was formed in 1978 by a group of biologists and others concerned about the range-wide decline of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).
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