If you're stuck in the jungle and you need research help fast, learned Oregon State University researchers, social networking may help, says the university:
A team of scientists in the remote Cuyuni River basin in Guyana was conducting a fish biodiversity survey recently, when they ran into a problem - they had to identify more than 5,000 specimens in less than a week in order to obtain a permit to export them back to the United States for further study.
Their solution? Why, Facebook, of course.
The researchers posted photos of about a hundred different species on their Facebook pages and alerted their friends. Within 24 hours, they had identified 90 percent of the specimens.
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