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For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones .

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USDA uses drones with loudspeakers to deter wolves from attacking cattle

Clips include AC/DC, movie scenes, gunshots, and human voices

Technology aims to reduce livestock losses and promote coexistence

High costs and long-term wolf adaptation remain potential challenges

But a team of biologists working near the California – Oregon border do, and they’re using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment.

“I am not putting up with this anymore!” actor Scarlett Johansson yells in one clip, from the 2019 film “ Marriage Stor

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