5/ And this assuming you can even make it affordable for large populations to enjoy cheap field contact with wildlife without destroying it
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6/ But OTOH, it seems clear to me now that even the best zoos are prisons that are not worth the cost in misery of, and risk to, animals
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7/ What we really need is virtual-reality type live/real-time wilderness exploration technologies
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8/ A good example is spy-in-the-jungle documentary about tigers imdb.com/title/tt122061
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9/ A world of difference between that and watching a tiger unhappily pace in a cage and kill a zoo visitor if it gets out accidentally
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10/ Image that done in VR: you could be present watching a tiger hunt with the right kind of live, unobtrusive tech
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11/ Oddly enough, this may be easier in water. The guys at have done a great job. Need that for land and air, deep in forests etc.
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I think for a land/jungle version of OpenROV, synthesized mobility (network of cameras) on trees would be better than a tracker bot
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You'd have to make it super small, quiet, non-threatening to not spook animals I think. Drones won't do.
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basically, everything is surprising. Very new types of experiences.
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. Hypothesis: when s/w eats zoos, there will be 1 telepresence enabling field robot "species" for every 10 biological species
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drones are getting smaller. Once they can mimic large flying insects then it's fine, no?
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