Mechanical Animals to Terminate Poaching

Photo: Tostie14 Via Flickr If you would have told me three months ago that a robot turkey was a worthwhile invention, I would have argued with you. “No,” I would have said. “I’m not quite sure what turkeys do with their time, but I’m pretty sure that we don’t need to replicate it mechanically.” But I would have been wrong, wrong about the turkeys. Game and Fish Departments across the United States have been using mechanical animals to snare poachers. Thousands of arrests are made each year with the help of robotic decoys...