Japan’s latest high-tech anti-bear strategy looks less like wildlife management and more like a demented Chuck E. Cheese animatronic escaped into the woods.
Toru Yamanaka
Meet the “Monster Wolf,” a robotic scarecrow with glowing red eyes, fake fur and speakers blasting over 50 sounds, from howls to electronic noise complaints. It swivels its head, flashes LEDs and can screech loud enough to be heard over half a mile away.
Basically a $4,000 demonic lawn ornament running on solar panels and unresolved trauma, but hey, it works.
Just because. A bear walked into a bar and ordered a whiskey and …… a Coke. The bartender asked, “Why the big pause?” The bear looked down and said, “I was born with them.”