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A researcher flies a drone equipped with thermal cameras in search of bamboo lemurs in Madagascar .
PHOTO BY CLAIRE BURKE
“ Animals have evolved over billions of years to camouflage themselves into their surroundings under the kind of light that we and other predators ordinarily see with . But they tend to be much warmer than their environment — so , with thermal imaging , they stand out really brightly against this cooler background .” — Steven Longmore , Liverpool John Moores University
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