Posted on 12/16/2020 6:40:57 AM PST by SJackson
The phone buzzed as the tracker came online, and a little circular blip appeared on the map. Helen Pheasey watched the dot intently as it moved inland from a beach on Costa Rica's Pacific coast.
"It just kept moving," she says. "Every hour I'm checking, and it's gone further and further."
Pheasey, then a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology in the UK, was tracking a stolen item -- but not the usual type.
The dot was tracking the journey of a fake turtle egg, which Pheasey had planted deep within a real turtle nest the day before. The egg was poached and trafficked to a supermarket loading bay 137 kilometers (85 miles) away, where it was probably sold.
Scientists used a 3D-printer to develop the decoy eggs.
Dubbed an "InvestEGGator," the fake turtle egg -- roughly the size of a ping pong ball -- was developed by scientists at US-based conservation organization Paso Pacifico, which focuses on protecting coastal ecosystems in Central America. Made of a rubbery material called NinjaFlex, the fake eggs are daubed with a special textured paint -- developed by Hollywood special effects artist Lauren Wilde -- that gives off a yellowish tinge.
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Since unlike the Obama gang they're actually putting trackers in the eggs this will work better than Fast and Furious.
Do people eat those things?....................
This is why I always keep my turtle eggs in a lead lined box.
“...Since unlike the Obama gang they’re actually putting trackers in the eggs this will work better than Fast and Furious.”
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Yep, this will help. A more SEVERE solution might be to inject an tasteless, undetectable, quick-acting and 100% fatal poison in a small percentage of the eggs. The deterrent effect on human poachers will make the inadvertent killing of a few snakes, raccoons and foxes worthwhile.
Well, I feel much safer now knowing that this is what they are concerned about.
Ha! More effort, expense and passion is being put into THAT than resolving election fraud!!
It now takes scientists to program a 3D printer? C'mon, man!
What on earth is the creature on the right?
So say they track down an egg. Then what happens? They give a nasty admonition to the perp and go on their merry way?
“Newman!”
The pic is from Jurassic Park.
He’s mostly known for his role as Newman, the mailman, in Seinfeld.
In Costa Rica it’s a misdemeanor, one year, $100m fine. Doubt they have a Soros DA, yet.
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