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A sticky situation with a crocodile

Newsday

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Scientists have started a hashtag poking fun at their own mistakes. They've called it #FieldWorkFail. And this must be one of the craziest examples - Agata Staniewicz found herself stuck onto a small crocodile in a swamp in Indonesia. She'd been trying to glue a transmitter to its skin, but ended up gluing her finger onto the crocodile... (Photo: Illustration of Agata Staniewicz's #FieldWorkFail, as recounted by her in our interview, subtitled: "I accidentally glued myself to a crocodile while attaching a radio transmitter" (Credit: French illustrator and animator Jim Jourdane)

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