Abstract: This paper discusses the optimisation of a HALCON vision system by using an artificial intelligence algorithm: a genetic algorithm. In industry, vision system applications vary extensively, ...

But after the animals were returned to a refuge in central Oman in 1982, almost all were wiped out by poachers. “We had the animals, and we put them back, and the world wasn’t ready,” says Pimm.

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Here are seven animals that bravely find pretty NSFW ways to get their rocks off -- and we mean actual rocks -- without the use of hands. Penguins A possibly masturbating penguin. Credit: Getty Images ...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons had the world in a chokehold during the pandemic, but it’s been five years since Nintendo’s cozy simulator. Even with updates and daily gameplay mechanics, many ...

Yet while animal calls can be combined, nobody has observed animals doing this to create new meanings in an open-ended productive manner. They don’t scale into the layered meanings that human ...