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2. Acoustic harassment device - Wikipedia

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   The devices have also been employed to keep marine mammals away from fishing nets. [2] The devices are known as acoustic harassment devices (AHDs) and acoustic deterrent devices, which are smaller AHDs [3] or intended as an awareness tool to warn species to the presence of danger rather than as a tool of harassment at a much louder level. [4]

3. Animal repellent - Wikipedia

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   An animal repellent consists of any object or method made with the intention of keeping animals away from personal items as well as food, plants or yourself. Plants and other living organisms naturally possess a special ability to emit chemicals known as semiochemicals as a way to defend themselves from predators.

4. Mousetrap - Wikipedia

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   Similar ranges of traps are sized for to trap other animal species; for example, rat traps are larger than mousetraps, and squirrel traps are larger still. A squirrel trap is a metal box-shaped device that is designed to catch squirrels and other similarly sized animals. The device works by drawing the animals in with bait that is placed inside.

5. Rats rule the NYC subway system. These stations are their ...

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   The data shows New Yorkers reported spotting rats on 40 per cent of subway trips in the past month while each station has been ranked in terms of how ratty it is. ... New York City is not the US ...

6. Electronic pest control - Wikipedia

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   Electronic pest control is the name given to any of several types of electrically powered devices designed to repel or eliminate pests, usually rodents or insects. Since these devices are not regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in the United States, the EPA does not require the same kind of efficacy testing that it does for chemical pesticides.

7. Gun-powered mousetrap - Wikipedia

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   US Patent 269766, awarded December 26, 1882, to James Alexander Williams of Fredonia, Mason County, Texas, describes a frame with a pistol or revolver secured to it, and a spring, levers and rod which would activate the gun's trigger when an animal stepped on a treadle in front of the muzzle, killing the animal.