A group of researchers are teaching Waldrapps, the northern bald ibis, to learn a migration route by teaching them to follow a microlight.
It's part of a wider conservation plan to save this critically endangered bird - because the birds are usually taught migration paths by their parents, impossible because the birds are raised in captivity, an artificial way to teach them is necessary.
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