Robots can be used to detect marked animals with less disturbance when assessing ecological drivers of population change.
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Trathan, P., Emmerson, L. Animal identification with robot rovers. Nat Methods 11, 1217–1218 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3195
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