5. Remote Controlled sampling:
If you want to take a sample from a very large animal, a whale, for instance, a team of scientists at ZSL Institute of Zoology have come up with a way to use a remote controlled helicopter to make that happen. Typically, tissue samples come at the cost of injury or invasive contact with whales. But rather than via blood tissues can also be collected via blow-hole air which is rich with, well, whale snot. The team came up with non-invasive method of hovering a 3-foot remote controlled helicopter over a whale pod with petri dishes strapped to the bottom that can collect samples when a whale exhales.
6. Texting Elephants:
Another version of the smart collar is one being used with elephants in Kenya to help ease human – animal conflicts there. The collar contain a mobile Sim card capable of sending text messages with the animals location for tracking their movement and in the future may be able to ― warm ‖ local farmers that the elephants are approaching their fields through a text messages.
7. High-Tech Fish Hooks:
A new high-tech magnetic fish-hooks, the SMART hook, could help keep sharks safer from fishing lines. The new hooks have a special metal coating that produces a voltage in seawater, and because sharks are highly sensitive to electric fields in the water, the SMART hook( Selective Magnetic and Repellent-Treated Hook), will help keep sharks away from the fishing lines indented for other species of fish.
8. Gene Sequencing:
When endangered species are threatened by disease, being able to isolate the unaffected individuals for breeding is now getting an additional technological boost. Scientist are now using high-tech gene sequencing machines in a desperate attempt to save the Tasmanian devil from an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor diseases that is threatening to wipe out the species.
9. Beehive Fences:
In some places, the interactions between farmers and elephants are getting a little bit easier, thanks to another species, the honey-bee, and some innovative thinking. A fence made of beehives, strung together by wires has been shown to be effective against elephants that have become a nuisance by raiding farmers‘ s crops.
10. Remote Measurement Tools:
Getting up close to some species, such as sharks, to get precise measurements for conservation and research efforts, is a tricky business. But with some high-tech tools, such as a stereo-camera system for studying sharks, scientists are now able to take these measurements with great accuracy, without actually being in contact with the animal at all.