[skinkinthegrass]

....taste of the news, in the "Land of Fruits/Nuts" (from the East Coast)

[Kirkwood]

ROFLMAO!!!!! This isn't going to fool any squirrel unless they were drunk.

[6SJ7]

Researchers at the Free University of Brussels, for instance, found that fake roaches doused in familiar pheromones became so accepted among their cockroach compatriots that the real bugs succumbed to the interlopers' peer pressure to move out of dark areas into the light.

Great. A giant cockroach army under cyborg control.

[maine-iac7]

"The real issue from a scientist's point of view is, 'Can I come up with a robot that will help me answer a question that I couldn't answer otherwise?'"

Little Red says - "Stupid humans...like we don't know the difference"

This is the feistiest of my little friends from the red squirrel group = he comes and tells me everything - and I get to observe them running around my property, interacting with one another, running their tree-top railroads, gathering/stashing, etc...Same with my grays - birds, etc...hummingbirds eat out of my hand, have had many sessions in the wild where, by being still and unobtrusive, I'm accepted by the 'locals' - like beavers, deer, Canadas, - and get to watch them going about their business.

All it takes it being still and quiet long enough and consistently - and then you can watch them interacting normally with each other - not a robot.

I have another friend who basically lived in the forest as a Maine Warden for 30 years. He's also a great wildlife artist - and catches the essence of each animal as he knows, from observation of them in their habitat, their personalities, etc.

These people with their robots are clueless...