Add angry (or curious) chimps to the list of hazards you may face when flying your drone.
From the Royal Burgers’ Zoo in the Netherlands, marking the first ever? short range chimp vs. drone engagement.
“The intelligent primates immediately discovered the spying little plane and right away armed themselves with long sticks against this inquisitive electronic intruder.
One of the chimpanzees was high up in a tree with a long branch.
Apparently very calm and satisfied, half asleep in the morning sun, the primate let the drone make its curious images, until the drone got just a bit too close.
Like a flash the chimpanzee struck out with the long stick she had held hidden behind her body.
With a direct hit the animal knocked the drone to the ground, where the group of primates quickly overpowered the ‘prey’.”