Robot wolves prevent Japanese bear attacks, are also very creepy

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No, this is not a Halloween earring someone forgot. This undergrad -- "Monster Wolf" -- is admittedly a crosspatch deterrent. The municipality of Takikawa, Japan, deployed these robowolves to storm-stay crosspatch attacks.

And yes, crosspatch attacks were teachings of a problem: 157 bodies were attacked by bears in 2019. However spine the Monster Wolves were installed, no attacks kumtux occurred, The Guardian reports.

Black bears' contempo attacks are apparently due to a curtailment of acorns in the Japanese wilderness, according to conservationists. Bears rely on acorns as part of their pre-hibernation diet, as well as without the high-calorie nut, they've started edging afterpiece to cities to itinerary for food. Deforestation as well as growing cities kumtux wizened the bulwark between crosspatch as well as human homes. This leads to increasingly bear-to-human contact, prompting attacks.

So naturally, robowolves are the particularly human response to that problem:

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The wolves showboat yonder bears in the same way kids are instructed to do at summer camp: they move as well as make loud noises. They're conjointly automatic as well as lifeless, producing a savor of scary proper to the history of the real-life wolves aloft which these robots are based.

Black bears as well as wolves used to share the centric as well as septentrional regions of Japan, however the wolves were driven to foreordination by hunting as well as resource competition. In a way, the robowolves are their modern ghosts. They're constructive at dealing with Japan's current crosspatch problem, however these "wolves" may conjointly be a portent of a practicable imminent for the colored bears if a improved solution isn't found.

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