Wild Animals Help Put On Their Own Tracking Collars
Scientists are testing a way to follow animals without catching them first.
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Source: Norwegian University of Life Sciences via Phys.org, 2026-11-04.
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In this lesson: Identify the purpose of tracking collars and distinguish a hoped-for benefit from a test result.
Grammar in this story: Acting without doing something else
without catching them
Without + -ing describes an action avoided by the new approach. The animals receive collars without researchers first catching them.
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Explain how the food devices help the researchers and what benefit they hope to test.
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The food attracts animals to devices where they can receive collars. Researchers hope this causes less stress than catching animals, but they plan more comparison tests.
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