AC/DC blast sends Thunderstruck wolves fleeing
Because for thousands of years people tried to keep Wolves away from their animals. Most of them didn’t have drones.
However, a biologist who works close to the California-Oregon border and uses AC/DC’s thunder, film clips and live human voices in Apex Predators to remove them from cattle in an ongoing experiment.
“I don’t bear it anymore!” Scarlett Johansson yells in a clip of the 2019 film marriage story used in the experiment.
In the first half of the 20th century, the Gray Wolves hunted almost disappeared throughout the West.
In the mid -1990s, since their reproduction in Idaho and Yellowstone National Park, they have increased to the point where a population in North Rockies was abolished.
Now in Washington and Oregon, hundreds of wolves, dozens of more and more in Northern California, and thousands of thousands of people are wandering near the Great Lakes.
The healing population has brought more and more creative efforts with the increasing conflict with the farm owners and the latter to protect the latter.
Electric fencing, wolf alarms, protective dogs, horse patrols, capture and displacement and now returned to drones. In some areas where non -fatal efforts have failed, authorities routinely approved their killing wolves, including in Washington last week.
Scientists with the United States Ministry of Agriculture developed techniques to leave the wolves while watching thermal imaging cameras at night, where predators were the most active.
A preliminary study published in 2022 showed that the addition of human sounds with the speaker on a drone could scare them.
Pre -loaded clips include music recordings, gunshots, fireworks and sounds.
A drone pilot starts by playing three clips randomly selected, such as screams and hair growing electric guitar licks, or randomly selected such as Thundersstruck.
If they do not work, the operator can improvise by shouting from a microphone or playing a different clip that is not between the randomized front settings.
Environmental advocates are optimistic about drones, because their wolves allow to scare in different ways, in different places.
“Wolves are afraid of new things, Amaroq Weiss, a wolf defender of the Biological Diversity Center, said.
Farm owners, who organize drone patrols in Northern California, accept that they have reduced animal deaths so far.
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