Guardian News published this video item, entitled “Meet Kokonut: the remote control koala probing if cows are trampling an Australian icon” – below is their description.
An unlikely hero is helping researchers from the University of Queensland investigate reports Australia’s cattle have been trampling koalas. After hearing anecdotal reports of serious injury or death to koalas due to cattle, UQ PhD candidate Alex Jiang developed a unique way to look into one of the problems facing the declining koala population – attaching a stuffed koala onto a remote control car, covering it in koala urine and faeces and calling it Kokonut. ‘If the cattle react differently to the car with the faux koala, that is, they’re more aggressive than with the regular RC car, we can be confident that their reactions are because of the fake koala,’ Jiang says
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