Robot lawn mowers are injuring hundreds of protected hedgehogs in Germany, and nearly half of those sliced by the machines are killed or die as a result of
New research into hedgehogs injured by robotic lawn mowers discovers a significant but solvable animal welfare and conservation problem sciencedaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencedaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) analysed 370 documented cases of hedgehogs being injured (cut) by el..
Robotic Lawn Mowers Cause Solvable Hedgehog Harm: Study miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hedgehogs numbers in Europe have been falling for years due to an increasing loss of habitat and sources of food amid human expansion, and for those that remain there is a new threat: robot lawnmowers. These automated machines, increasingly common in gardens with lawns, are known to slice more than vegetation, and conservationists have been warning that hedgehogs are being killed by these mowers, many of which are not built to detect or avoid them. A University of Oxford-led team has come up wit