Cute critters outsmart humans
[2008-7-31]
Tag : PVC Insulated Wires
Take, for instance, the unidentified culprit that wreaked havoc onthe par-3 golf course June Ewing built in a 10-acre field.
Day after day, the Akron retiree would find the white plastic cupspulled out of the golf holes, and she once found what shediscreetly described as ''a present'' left by an animal that hadused the hole as a latrine.
''Evidently, it wanted to make a statement about my expertise atdesigning golf courses,'' she wrote.
Ewing was one of the readers who responded to my request forstories about run-ins with crafty critters. They're proof thathuman intelligence isn't always as superior as we like to believe.
Akron's Jack Gieck managed to keep the crafty thieves out of hisbird feeder for a few years by rigging up a zapper on the feeder'swood pole. Gieck, an engineer who retired from Firestone 26 yearsago, wrapped the support with a helix of copper wire and energizedit with high voltage from a cheap electric fence control.
Eventually, though, a new and smarter generation of raccoonsstarted making midnight raids. By that time, the fence control hadcorroded, so he bought an even cheaper one that operated onflashlight batteries. He attached the hot side of the control'shigh-voltage coil to a new copper helix and drove a metal stakeinto the soil for a ground.
It worked for a few nights, but before long, he started finding thefeeders empty every morning. ''So I stayed up . . . and couldn'tbelieve what I witnessed: I watched as the guy jumped from the ground onto my high-voltage helix of copper wire,'' hewrote. ''Since his hind feet weren't grounded, he could proceed toclimb the rest of the way to the feeder at his leisure.''
Take, for instance, the unidentified culprit that wreaked havoc onthe par-3 golf course June Ewing built in a 10-acre field.
Day after day, the Akron retiree would find the white plastic cupspulled out of the golf holes, and she once found what shediscreetly described as ''a present'' left by an animal that hadused the hole as a latrine.
''Evidently, it wanted to make a statement about my expertise atdesigning golf courses,'' she wrote.
Ewing was one of the readers who responded to my request forstories about run-ins with crafty critters. They're proof thathuman intelligence isn't always as superior as we like to believe.
Akron's Jack Gieck managed to keep the crafty thieves out of hisbird feeder for a few years by rigging up a zapper on the feeder'swood pole. Gieck, an engineer who retired from Firestone 26 yearsago, wrapped the support with a helix of copper wire and energizedit with high voltage from a cheap electric fence control.
Eventually, though, a new and smarter generation of raccoonsstarted making midnight raids. By that time, the fence control hadcorroded, so he bought an even cheaper one that operated onflashlight batteries. He attached the hot side of the control'shigh-voltage coil to a new copper helix and drove a metal stakeinto the soil for a ground.
It worked for a few nights, but before long, he started finding thefeeders empty every morning. ''So I stayed up . . . and couldn'tbelieve what I witnessed: I watched as the guy jumped from the ground onto my high-voltage helix of copper wire,'' hewrote. ''Since his hind feet weren't grounded, he could proceed toclimb the rest of the way to the feeder at his leisure.''
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