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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on February 25, 2009, 10:05:30 AM
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In a bold step forward for the science of crocodile avoidance, wildlife managers in Florida have launched an experiment to see if they can keep crocodiles from entering to residential neighborhoods by taping magnets to their heads. They got the idea from researchers at Mexico's Crocodile Museum in Chiapas, who reported in a biology newsletter they had some success with the method.
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Crocodiles are notoriously territorial, and when biologists move them away from urban areas to new homes in the wild, they often head straight back to the place where they were captured.
Scientists believe they rely in part on the Earth's magnetic fields to navigate, and that taping magnets to both sides of their heads disorients them.
'They're just taped on temporarily,' Hord noted.
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Hord and his co-workers have tried it on two crocodiles since launching the experiment in January, affixing 'a common old laboratory magnet' to both sides of the animals' heads.
One got run over by a car and died, but the other has yet to return, Hord said.
Crocodiles which return to their old haunts twice after being moved on are sent to zoos or otherwise placed in captivity, something biologists hope to avoid if the magnet experiment works.
'This one is by no means a really well-developed scientific study with a control group. I's just something we thought we would try,' Hord cautioned.
link (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Florida_to_start_taping_magnets_to_crocodiles&in_article_id=556636&in_page_id=2)
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Do they put the tinfoil hats on top of, or underneath, the magnets? :-)
Floridians take note!
:rotf:
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Why don't they just give the alligators the drugs that erase their memories? Electroshock therapy maybe?
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Why don't they just give the alligators the drugs that erase their memories? Electroshock therapy maybe?
Hydrotherapy. Yeah, that'll do it.
What kinda tape do they use in the water? And what happens when the gators bang their jaws together when they're fighting the guy who encroached on their pond?
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Aw, hell.
Now folks in Florida are gonna have to check for f*ckin' alligators stuck on the g*ddamn refrigerator every morning.
Glad I only lived down there for five years.
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Aw, hell.
Now folks in Florida are gonna have to check for f*ckin' alligators stuck on the g*ddamn refrigerator every morning.
Glad I only lived down there for five years.
They're gonna have to stop buying heavy cream and leaving it in the fridge, then. When the critters get stuck and get into their "death roll", it'll start churning more butter than they could use all week.
:-)
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link (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Florida_to_start_taping_magnets_to_crocodiles&in_article_id=556636&in_page_id=2)
"What a croc". :-)
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One got run over by a car and died, but the other has yet to return, Hord said.
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Aw, hell.
Now folks in Florida are gonna have to check for f*ckin' alligators stuck on the g*ddamn refrigerator every morning.
Glad I only lived down there for five years.
LOL!