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Aiesha uses clippers to take
a plant specimen. |
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Pelley uses a special measuring
tape to find the width of a tree. |
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Wilmer uses a tree trimmer
to collect fruit and leave
specimens from a tall tree. |
Anyone need a haircut? Well, you're out of luck. These clippers aren't fine enough to do that, but they are great for snipping off branches and saplings that would reduce your hair scissors to a twisted mess.
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"Personally, I think it would be much more efficient to get our mammal guy to train a monkey to run up into to the tree and pick the said fruits and leaves, but whatever..." |
And what's so special about this measuring tape anyway? When you put it around the tree, it doesn't tell you the circumference (measurement around the tree), instead it automatically converts it to the diameter (distance straight through the tree). This saves you a lot of pain and agony involving the number pi and square roots when you're trying to figure out the width of the tree.
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Finally, Wilmer shows us that it is actually unnecessary to bring your stilts into the jungle. Here he uses a tree trimmer to cut fruits and leaves from a tall tree. Personally, I think it would be much more efficient to get our mammal guy to train a monkey to run up into to the tree and pick the said fruits and leaves, but whatever...
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