Giving jaguars 'food poisoning' may stop them from killing livestock en (newscientist.com)

NotAPenguin, hace 11 meses

Or we could just stop exploiting "livestock" for profit/taste and it wouldn't be an issue at all.

LennethAegis, hace 11 meses

I thought that was a standard farming defense technique. Feed the local predators rotten sheep and they become disgusted at the sight of sheep.

readbeanicecream, hace 11 meses

@LennethAegis looks like this is a very similar process. But instead of waiting for the meat to rot, they are taking fresh meat lacing it with dewormer, and wrapping it in animal skin.

LennethAegis, hace 11 meses

And probably easier on the farmer to not have to deal with rotten meat and fresh meat more likely to attract predators than rotten ones.

readbeanicecream, hace 11 meses

@LennethAegis Agreed. If I was a farmer, I would probably prefer to deal with fresh meat over rotten meat.

RemembertheApollo, hace 11 meses

I wonder if predators would learn to detect the smell of dewormer and just avoid that and not the prey.

jeena, hace 11 meses

We should do that to Meta.

readbeanicecream, hace 11 meses

@jeena if anything needs to be dewormed and purged, it's Meta.