Wolf to protect your garden

[bcp]

Robotic wolves keep foraging wild boar at bay on Chiba farms：The Asahi Shimbun

Farmers here are being offered "Super Monster Wolf" robots to lease as weapons to deter wild animals that wreak havoc with their crops.

The move comes after the city's agricultural cooperative association (JA Kisarazu) concluded that the robotic wolves proved effective in keeping animal pests at bay following a trial that began last year.


One unit is available for a trial lease of up to six months at a cost of 2,000 yen ($18.90) a month. Afterward, farmers can decide if they want to rent one on their own for 12,100 yen per month for four years.

 

[bunyip]

That looks positively demonic....

 

[ch47dpilot]

I have a 7ft animatronic werewolf I got from Home Depot. Wonder if that would work? He moves and growls with a motion sensor. Doubt he's waterproof though.

 

[Wagtail]

I don't know if Japan should go ahead with this... one nuclear accident and it will mutate.

I've seen documentaries about this happening time and time again.

How many times has Tokyo been re-built?

 

[Thomas]

My luck some hacker find a way the control it and chase me.

 

[oosik]

That robotic wolf is all well and good. However - what in the world is a farmer to do if the local wildlife become familiar with the wolf and it no longer scares them.

I had a robotic owl that I put on a post - out in the garden. It worked for about two months. Then one day - out in the garden - there is a black bird perched on the owl. The game was over - the robotic owl no longer scared anything.

 

[Ford850]

That robotic wolf is all well and good. However - what in the world is a farmer to do if the local wildlife become familiar with the wolf and it no longer scares them.

I had a robotic owl that I put on a post - out in the garden. It worked for about two months. Then one day - out in the garden - there is a black bird perched on the owl. The game was over - the robotic owl no longer scared anything.

That crow changed the pecking order. From that day on, he ruled the roost.

 

[oosik]

Ford850 - SPOT ON. And he and his compadres ate or spoiled everything in the garden that was not below ground.