Robots versus Poachers

National Geographic is running an interesting article on the efforts of wildlife officials in the US to catch poachers using robotic decoy animals as bait. The robots mimic the behavior of wild animals and are much more resilient than their non-metallic counterparts. The obvious next step here is to make robotic animals that actually arrest the poachers themselves.

On a related note Talk of the Nation's Science Friday had a good segment on animal CSI yesterday.