Bad summarization? Not necessarily. In the Terminator series SkyNet placed living tissue over a robot in order to infiltrate human enclaves. Similarly, researchers placed robotics in a carcass in order to fool living sparrows. Exactly the same? No, but the premise is quite similar. The analogy was drawn simply to give the reader an idea of what happened since readers may be more familiar with the Terminator films than with ornithology, robotics, and taxidermy. Also, there are several meanings of the word re-animate; not just to bring the dead back to life. In this summary it is used in its abstract form. Finally, the summary clearly states exactly what was done (robotics placed into a carcass) and why (to study bird behavior) therefore even without reading the source one can properly deduce what transpired. I do not apologize for your confusion.
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Bad summarization? Not necessarily. In the Terminator series SkyNet placed living tissue over a robot in order to infiltrate human enclaves. Similarly, researchers placed robotics in a carcass in order to fool living sparrows. Exactly the same? No, but the premise is quite similar. The analogy was drawn simply to give the reader an idea of what happened since readers may be more familiar with the Terminator films than with ornithology, robotics, and taxidermy. Also, there are several meanings of the word re-animate; not just to bring the dead back to life. In this summary it is used in its abstract form. Finally, the summary clearly states exactly what was done (robotics placed into a carcass) and why (to study bird behavior) therefore even without reading the source one can properly deduce what transpired. I do not apologize for your confusion.