Scientists in New Mexico are giving dead birds a new life with an unconventional approach to wildlife research.
A team at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro is taking birds that have been preserved through taxidermy and converting them into drones in order to study flight.
"We came up with this idea that we can use ... dead birds and make them a drone," he said. "Everything is there ... we do reverse engineering." Brenden Herkenhoff, a Ph.D. student at New Mexico Tech, focuses his research on coloration and flight efficiency.
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