Endangered ferrets are being saved by drones that drop vaccine-laced M&Ms

It's the first time that I really can get such a cute ferret portrait! Here’s your weird but interesting technology story for the day. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are using M&M dispensing drones to save endangered black-footed ferrets in rural Montana. The ferret’s main source of food are prairie dogs, which being killed by the sylvatic plague, a disease spread by rats and fleas that has existed since the 1800s. To date, biologists… Read More


via Techcrunch
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