\u201cI need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,\u201d a USDA district supervisor said<\/p>\n
\n\tWolves hoping to feast on livestock on farms across the country have had their appetite spoiled by the sound of Scarlett Johansson<\/a> and Adam Driver<\/a> arguing. According to the Wall Street Journal,<\/a> the USDA has programmed drone cowhands to broadcast the explosive argument scene from Noah Baumbach\u2019s Marriage Story<\/a>, in which the two actors spend four minutes screaming about how much they hate each other, to scare the predators away. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,\u201d the Oregon-based USDA district supervisor, Paul Wolf, said in the report. Wolf has, fittingly, been leading operations on wolf hazing with drones for three years. The strategy was deployed in response to an uptick in wolves devouring cattle at concerning rates. In one 20-day period, 11 cows were killed in Oregon\u2019s Klamath Basin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tBut once the wolves heard the drone audio \u2014 the report doesn\u2019t specify any particular section of the scene, so we\u2019re going with Driver screaming \u201cEvery day I wake up and hope you\u2019re dead\u201d and immediately breaking down in tears \u2014 they were deterred. A subsequent 85-day period showed that only two cows were killed. <\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe USDA also found that AC\/DC\u2019s 1990 single \u201cThunderstruck\u201d has been helpful in scaring off hungry wolves, as well as fireworks and gunshots. The crew members steering the drones in the dark of the night will sometimes call out to the animals themselves. In the report, the wildlife biologist Colby McAdams yelled, \u201cHey get out of here! Get!\u201d The wolf responded to the noise, but Johansson\u2019s screaming \u201cYou gaslighted me, you\u2019re a fucking villain\u201d would be so much more cinematic.<\/p>\n \n\tWhether the drones are a suitable long-term solution remains to be seen. If the wolves develop a tolerance to Marriage Story, the USDA could always try Andrew Garfield howling \u201cSorry, my Prada\u2019s at the cleaners along with my hoodie and my \u2018fuck you\u2019 flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag\u201d in The Social Network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,\u201d a USDA district supervisor said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31979,49,48,31981,66,323],"class_list":["post-47842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-adam-driver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}