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Toy helicopter used to sample whale health

A toy helicopter flying over a whale's blow to sample the gases and mucus that it exhales.

A scientist from ZSL has invented a highly innovative way of looking for whale diseases: flying a toy helicopter over whales’ blows to sample the gases and mucus that they exhale.

The technique is unique and ground-breaking, enabling scientists to find out what pathogens (disease-causing micro-organisms) are carried by live and apparently healthy large whales, something that wa...

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