Hell’s bells!
Researchers are preventing marauding gray wolves from mauling herds of cattle out West — by blasting tunes by Aussie rockers AC/DC from drones.
US Department of Agriculture biologists are finding that the classic rock group’s hit tune “Thunderstruck” and sounds from Hollywood flicks can leave the wolves shaking all night long — and away from valuable livestock near the California and Oregon border. 5
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“Wolves are frightened of novel things,” said Amaroq Weiss, a wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, to The Associated Press. “I know that in the human imagination, people think of wolves as big, scary critters that are scared of nothing.”
Not so, the researchers found — and it’s not just Angus Young’s riffs that shoo the wolves away.
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