{"id":544087,"date":"2026-04-22T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544087\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:17:08","slug":"watch-robot-chases-wild-boars-off-the-streets-of-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544087\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Robot chases wild boars off the streets of Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Polish capital Warsaw has seen the number of wild boar on its streets soar to more than 3,000 &#8211; with reports from the public rising 20-fold since 2020 &#8211; so it&#8217;s now planning a task force to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A viral clip of a humanoid robot chasing wild boar in a Warsaw street has amassed more than 14 million views on Instagram &#8211; and another clip shows wild boar stealing sandwiches from the panniers of a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A study showed there had been 121 attacks on people in 2025 and 341 were killed by cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Magdalena M\u0142ochowska, of Green Warsaw said the task force would have to find a way &#8220;to help minimise conflicts between humans and wildlife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The presence of wild boars in densely built-up areas\u2026 poses a real threat to the health and lives of residents,&#8221; M\u0142ochowska told BBC Warsaw correspondent Adam Easton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Polish capital Warsaw has seen the number of wild boar on its streets soar to more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-544087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}