To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:17:04 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: call out the dogs
From: ronkean at juno.com
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From: Eugen Leitl
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:12:43 +0530
From: Udhay Shankar N

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_654158.html

Ananova - Hunting dogs are issued with mobile phones

Hunters in Finland are hoping to track game better by strapping mobile
phones with tracking devices onto the backs of dogs.

A dog's bark will help determine what sort of animal it has tracked from
hundreds of miles away.

Hunters will also be able to give orders on the two-way mobile system.

The development comes as the bear and duck hunting season gets under way.

The phone, equipped with GSM and GSP technology, was developed by the
Benefon mobile phone company and Pointer, a company that makes dog
tracking
devices.

Hunters tested it for more than a year on several dogs in different
weather
conditions and it works well, said Klaus Ekman, spokesman for the
Hunters'
Central organisation.

"It's a natural development from the tracking devices that we have been
using for some 25 years," Mr Ekman said. "Hunters are able to pinpoint
the
dog and now they can communicate with it from kilometres away."

Hunters in Finland have permits to fell 103 brown bears of an estimated
population of 1,050 by the end of October. Some 200,000 hunters also have

permits to shoot 600,000 ducks during the season that ends in December.

The canine cell phones are expected to come into increased use in
September
when traditionally large groups of hunters set out after some 85,000 elk
this year.

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((Udhay Shankar N))
      God is silent. Now if we can only get Man to shut up.

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