Normally, it's open season on the animals, but the state doesn't want to create too much of a disturbance for other species.

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Some may have fallen, but there's too much of it to be a random collection of dead animals.

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Full shares his hypothesis with engineers who test the biological principles on their robots, they are often able to offer biologists new insights into the ways in which animals move, resulting in advancements not only for the field of robotics but for biology, too.

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The animals could have been disturbed or even partially deafened, but their mating and migrating activities may have been too important for them to change their patterns of behaviour.

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