Can We Outsmart The Smartest Bird?

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Ravens are extremely successful, adaptable, opportunistic birds whose population has exploded in the Mojave over the last 60 years. This has been bad news for the desert tortoise. The solution to this problem might just lay in the overlap of conservation and engineering with 3d printing, lasers, and grape flavoring.

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