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It takes skill and patience to design a tiny bespoke backpack and fit it onto an Australian bearded dragon. But Kristoffer Wild regularly found himself doing just that during his PhD at the Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland. “I became a tailor during my PhD,” the University of Melbourne ecologist joked. He would measure the neck and chest of each …