{"id":1963,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/drones-can-stop-grizzly-bears-from-attacking-humans\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","slug":"drones-can-stop-grizzly-bears-from-attacking-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/drones-can-stop-grizzly-bears-from-attacking-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones can stop grizzly bears from attacking humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-27 15:08:50<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Grizzly bear attacks can be prevented by drones.<BR><br \/>\nHuman and bear contact is an issue in areas where both creatures overlap but the remote-controlled devices could fend off the beats in a humane manner.<BR><br \/>\nAs bears are drawn to food that can easily be accessed via rubbish, livestock and crops &#8211;  it keeps them coming back to public areas, which can lead to attacks on people or properties.<BR><br \/>\nWesley Sarmento, a grizzly bear management specialist in the US state of Montana, spent six years testing different methods &#8211; including dogs, projectiles and chasing in cars &#8211; on how to fend off bears, but drones appeared to be the &#8220;magic tool&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nHe wrote in a paper for the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science: &#8220;Drones outperformed other hazing techniques where the odds of a pursuit of a bear being possible increased 127 per cent relative to vehicular chasing, due to accessibility issues&#8230;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Even at night, I could find bears from afar with the thermal camera, and then fly in closer to move them away from towns, homes, and livestock. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The drone was such an asset that I couldn&#8217;t imagine doing the job without it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-27 15:08:50 Grizzly bear attacks can be prevented by drones. Human and bear contact is an issue in areas where both creatures overlap but the remote-controlled devices could fend off&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}