Loading ...VIDEO: Eagles attack and take down drones at remote mining site in Australia
Wedge-tailed eagles want nothing to do with the increasing number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, which ride the skies in Western Australia.
South Africa’s Gold Fields (JSE, NYSE:GFI), the world’s seventh-largest gold producer, has already lost ten of these vehicles since it adopted the technology at its St Ives operation. One crashed as a result of human error, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports, while the rest have been the victim of wedge-tailed eagles, the largest bird of prey in Australia and one of the world’s biggest.
VIDEO: Eagles attack and take down drones at remote mining site in Australia