Telemetric Egg (IMAGE)

Smithsonian

Telemetric Egg

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Staff at Smithsonian's National Zoo use telemetric eggs, such as this one, to record important information about kori bustard incubation. The electronic egg is put under the adult bird and records incubation temperature and the rate the parent birds turn the egg. The data are sent from the egg to a receiver and recorded 24 hours a day. This information is vital to better understand the complete biology of the species.

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Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian's National Zoo

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