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Scientists are trying to find an accurate and inexpensive way to measure the number of tigers left in our world. They met in St Petersburg, Russia for the upcoming week's Tiger Summit. There are already to possible ways to find out the number of tigers, but one is inaccurate and one is expensive and takes many highly trained workers to complete it. The inaccurate one is paw print tracking. The expensive one is camera traps. A camera trap is an automated camera used to capture pictures of wild animals. The scientists solution for this was to find out the number of tigers by measuring two tiger signs- paw prints and feces. This is only a quarter of what the camera traps cost, but this technique is still very accurate.

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I think that it is great that scientists care so much about the tigers that they would take so much time trying to figure out a way to accurately measure the amount of tigers left. I believe that they came up with a really good way to go about this problem because they considered two variables, paw prints and feces, and came up with an accurate number with those two things in mind. I really enjoyed reading this article because, I am very concerned about all the endangered species and, I thought that it was great that the scientists are making such a big effort to preserve our world's tigers. I was a little concerned that they used some kind of traps to measure the number of tigers, but then I thought about it and realized that their mission was to preserve the tigers not to harm them. I also liked their solution because, it was less expensive than camera trapping, but more accurate than only measuring paw prints. So it was a good point in the middle, and met both standards.