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When scientists raise newly hatched birds that have lost their parents, the scientists often use puppet-like devices to feed and care for the young birds. These puppet-like devices look like adult birds of the same species as the newly hatched birds. Why do the scientists use these puppet-like devices?

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so that way the bird will know how to raise its own egg and will be abel to safely reproduce

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they use these because they want the birds to have the same childhood as the birds who haven't lost their parents
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