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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lifestyle
Gabe Barnard

The St. Louis Zoo is using fitness trackers to help save endangered cattle

ST. LOUIS — Poaching and habitat loss are driving a species of exotic cattle toward extinction in the wild.

But scientists at the St. Louis Zoo are coming to the rescue — with fitness trackers.

Researchers there used the bovine version of a Fitbit, combined with fecal samples, to uncover hidden patterns in the animals’ reproductive cycles.

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