Natural historians have many observational techniques in their toolkit for learning about the natural world: tagging animals with tracking devices, recording sounds, analyzing droppings or simply watching and counting. As technology has advanced, these methods have grown far more precise and wide-reaching, letting researchers capture details that were once impossible to detect. Even today, however, these cutting-edge tools aren’t the only route to discovery.

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