{"id":129279,"date":"2021-10-20T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-drone-company-will-airlift-stranded-dogs-over-a-stream-of-lava"},"modified":"2021-10-20T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:22:59","slug":"a-drone-company-will-airlift-stranded-dogs-over-a-stream-of-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-drone-company-will-airlift-stranded-dogs-over-a-stream-of-lava","title":{"rendered":"A Drone Company Will Airlift Stranded Dogs. Over a Stream of Lava?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/362YfwlILiE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Reuters, <\/em> Jaime Pereira, CEO of Aerocamaras, said \u201cit\u2019s the first time an animal is being rescued with a drone and the first time it has to be captured. If that\u2019s the last option that the dogs have? Then we\u2019re going after them.\u201d Pereira also mentioned a possible nightmare scenario caused by the limitations of drone battery technology, and the tricky nature of the operation, which relies partly on the cooperation of the stranded canines: \u201cWhat we don\u2019t want is to run out of battery when flying over the lava,\u201d he said. In order to carry out the mission as safely as possible, the drone operator is currently carrying out test flights to practice before sending its drones to the location near the live volcano.<\/p>\n<p>Though this is likely the first time a dog has been carried to safety by a drone, operators in China <a class=\"\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/china-uses-drones-and-bananas-to-guide-elephants-home\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/china-uses-drones-and-bananas-to-guide-elephants-home\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\">guided a herd of wayward elephants<\/a> home with the aid of drones. In that case, however, the drones were only used to keep track of the animals. The technology is also being trialed for <a class=\"\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-140-mph-first-responder-drone-can-recharge-itself-in-flight\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-140-mph-first-responder-drone-can-recharge-itself-in-flight\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\">first responder operations<\/a> in the case of natural disasters and emergencies. Here\u2019s hoping the novel method for extracting the otherwise inaccessible animals to safety goes off without a hitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Reuters, Jaime Pereira, CEO of Aerocamaras, said \u201cit\u2019s the first time an animal is being rescued with a drone and the first time it has to be captured. If that\u2019s the last option that the dogs have? Then we\u2019re going after them.\u201d Pereira also mentioned a possible nightmare scenario caused by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}