• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    These experiments are pretty cool, and we can learn a lot about the animal’s interactions without having to follow them around and hope they run into a scenario.

    There’s also this video by Tom Scott about “VR for locusts” which goes into why these experiments are cool

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRIBVykhpC4

    The downside is you need to be careful extrapolating since the VR setup might influence the results, but that’s also true for most other observation methods in biological research