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'Super Monster Wolf' a success in Japan farming trials
BBC ^
Posted on 03/06/2018 12:45:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
A robot wolf designed to protect farms has proved to be such a success in trials that it is going into mass production next month.
The "Super Monster Wolf" is a 65cm-long, 50cm-tall robot animal covered with realistic-looking fur, featuring huge white fangs and flashing red eyes, Asahi Television reports.
It's been designed to keep wild boar away from rice and chestnut crops, and was deployed on a trial basis near Kisarazu City in Japan's eastern Chiba prefecture last July.
When it detects an approaching animal, its eyes light up and it starts to howl, Asahi TV says. Its manufacturers say the robot wolf uses solar-rechargeable batteries and has a range of howl noises so that animal threats don't get used to it.
The Japan Agricultural Cooperatives say that crop losses have noticeably decreased in areas where the Super Monster Wolf has been present.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: boom; q; qanon
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:49:19 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
To: RoosterRedux
Think of all those unemployed scarecrows...
To: nickcarraway
My guess is that over time, the pigs will figure out the hoax and ignore it. When you shoot a few, they figure that out too and will usually stay away.
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:51:48 PM PST
by
Spok
("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
To: nickcarraway
Scarecrows would probably not deter wild boar.
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:51:54 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
( Why not give up a bad habit today?)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
I have seen this movie.
It does not end well.
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:52:38 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:53:31 PM PST
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:54:28 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: RoosterRedux
Looks like a Wooly-Booger.
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:55:27 PM PST
by
matthew fuller
(There are 44,498,750 reasons that democrat concern for dead children is so totally hypocritical.)
To: RoosterRedux
Couldn’t it have a ‘friendlier’ face?
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:55:54 PM PST
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:56:11 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
To: nickcarraway
$114 a month? How much to just purchase it outright?
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:58:46 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: Spok
Ranks right up there with the plastic owls and hawks that are designed to keep birds away from boat basins and are covered with seagull crap..........
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:58:51 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: nickcarraway
If they can’t change with the time, they’ll be left behind...
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posted on
03/06/2018 12:59:12 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: nickcarraway
I’m going to hold out for the Mark II version - the one that can run 30 mph.
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posted on
03/06/2018 1:00:56 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: knarf
This thing would be a hoot on any college campus! Snowflakes would kill each other in the stampede.
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posted on
03/06/2018 1:04:24 PM PST
by
matthew fuller
(There are 44,498,750 reasons that democrat concern for dead children is so totally hypocritical.)
To: Hot Tabasco
A lot of folks put those fake owls and hawks on their dock railings back when if was popular. The seagulls used to fly down and sit on them to get a slightly better view of the fishing prospects.
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posted on
03/06/2018 1:04:28 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: nickcarraway
Metalhead.
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posted on
03/06/2018 1:06:45 PM PST
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: Snickering Hound
Well, that's a nice picture.
I didn't need to sleep tonight anyhow.
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posted on
03/06/2018 1:08:55 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Where have you gone, Augusto Pinochet? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.)
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