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US 2004/0163301 A9Published application
Rabid animal control method
OwnerDenny George Constantineinventor
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for luring attack-prone, rabies-infected mammals (e.g., carnivores, bats) into restraint and/or euthanasia but not luring normal, uninfected animals.
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A method of attracting rabies-infected mammals, comprising:
- providing a source of nonbiological sound which assaults the auditory hyperesthesia of said rabies-infected mammals but not healthy rabies-free mammals and which attracts said rabies-infected mammals to said source of nonbiological sound;
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- capturing said rabies-infected mammals attracted to said source of nonbiological sound.
An apparatus for luring attack-prone, rabies-infected bats into restraint but not luring normal, uninfected bats, comprising:
- a frame having a series of taut vertical wires therein;
- a nonbiological sound source mounted behind and facing said wires which assaults the auditory hyperesthesia of said rabies-infected bats;
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- a smooth-sided hopper below said frame;
- whereby the rabies-infected bats attack said nonbiological sound source, encounter the wires, and slide down said wires into said hopper.
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