Ingenious wordplay.
Goldfish at the wheel
Scientists at Israel's Ben-Gurion University trained goldfish to drive a "fish-operated vehicle" or FOV. According to scmp.com: "Each fish was put into the FOV – equipped with a fish tank – at different locations in a room and tasked with a goal to drive to a
visual target. If they steered to the target, they were rewarded with a fish pellet. To the scientists' amazement, the goldfish successfully reached the target after a few days of training, no matter what position they started in or if they were interrupted by hitting a wall or by false targets."
Irresistible combo
A dog caught on a tidal sandbar was led to safety by a sausage hung from a drone. Millie disappeared after slipping her lead in Havant, Hampshire, and, after frantic public appeals, was spotted on the mudflats, in danger of being engulfed by the tide. She resisted efforts to encourage her to a safer spot until a drone pilot suggested attaching food to one of the unmanned aerial vehicles that had been used to track the dog.
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