{"id":301524,"date":"2021-07-16T23:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/drones-battle-65k-rats-that-invaded-marlon-brandos-island\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T23:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:32:24","slug":"drones-battle-65k-rats-that-invaded-marlon-brandos-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/drones-battle-65k-rats-that-invaded-marlon-brandos-island\/","title":{"rendered":"#Drones battle 65K rats that invaded Marlon Brando’s island"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Drones battle 65K rats that invaded Marlon Brando’s island<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Did the black rats bring Marlon Brando? Or did Marlon Brando bring the black rats?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll never know. According to Wired<\/a>, they both arrived at roughly the same time on Tetiaroa atoll, a remote 3.7-square-mile island in French Polynesia. <\/p>\n

But now the legendary Brando is dead, having left behind a modestly sized village he built on the island<\/a> a few years after filming 1962\u2019s \u201cMutiny on the Bounty\u201d \u2013 and where tens of thousands of rats are thriving. <\/p>\n

Sally Esposito, a spokesperson for Brando Family Trust, told Wired that there are as many as 65,000 rats on Tetiaroa atoll.<\/p>\n

Now, members of a group called Island Conservation think they have a solution to the ratty incursion: drones. Uniquely engineered drones will fly over the island and carpet the place, sea to sea, with poison pellets. As put by Wired: \u201cThe charity will implement the world\u2019s first scalable, heavy-lift drone operation to remove invasive rats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Territorial rodents have thinned bird and turtle populations there \u2013 using their tiny, sharp teeth, rats like to gorge on eggs and hatchlings of fliers, as well as reptiles \u2013 and that contributes to nearby coral reefs losing out on proper amounts of nutrients. <\/p>\n

In short, rats on the island behave exactly as you think they would after achieving the upper hand.<\/p>\n

However, the conservation group\u2019s app<\/a>roach to thinning the rodent herd is highly considered. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been watching drone technology<\/a> for a number of years with the idea that it can dramatically reduce cost and also democratize island restoration by allowing local experts to be able to fly them [by] using precision automating processes,\u201d David Will, innovation program manager at Island Conservation, told the publication.<\/p>\n

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Havoc-wreaking rats may have met their match.<\/figcaption>
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This is not the first attempt to kill off the pesky predators. A 2012 effort \u2013 using an undisclosed technique that simply may have been people laying down poison \u2013 failed because islanders lost what appears to be a zero-sum game<\/a>: If 100 percent of the rats are not exterminated, the infestation will return in short order. According to research<\/a>, one pregnant rat can take over a 4-square-mile island in just two years.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, it is clear that time is of the essence when it comes to decimating the rat herd. <\/p>\n

\u201cSpecies are going extinct at a rapid pace,\u201d fretted Will, referring to the birds and reptiles that equal gourmet fare for the island\u2019s rats. \u201cWe know that if we don\u2019t do anything, species will go extinct.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here is the rats\u2019 match: High-tech drones that drop poison pellets.<\/figcaption>
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Hopefully, that won\u2019t happen. And, if things proceed as planned, the last of the rats, weak from poison, could be echoing a set of Brando\u2019s most iconic lines: \u201cI could have been a contender. I could have been somebody, instead of a bum. Which is what I am \u2014 let\u2019s face it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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