Jess Weatherbed
Birds aren’t real.
Satirical conspiracy theories aside, stuffed birds really are being turned into drones for surveillance purposes.
A team of researchers designed the “ornithopters” to resemble a flying bird in hopes they can be used to stealthily study wildlife — and maybe spy on people and foreign militaries. The team acknowledged to New Scientist that it should “look into research policies for dealing with dead birds before getting more ambitious,” though.
