Officials in Maryland are using robotic versions of wildlife to lure in poachers. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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These undercover robot animals are helping in the hunt for poachers"
by Karin Brulliard
February 24, 2016
“Two men in Maryland recently achieved Internet infamy when they were temporarily banned from hunting after they’d used crossbows to shoot a deer on state land.
Or so they thought.
The men had actually fallen prey to the ruse of a state-owned robotic deer, one of a growing number of remote-controlled decoys being used by American wildlife law enforcement to stop poachers. Across the nation, a small army of deer, elk, bear, turkey, fox and wolf dummies has been deployed to catch people who hunt in the wrong place, in the wrong season or otherwise illegally.”