Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

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Robotics engineer and PhD candidate Suhan Kim from Massachusetts Institute of Technology discusses how his lab is building a ...