DE102013011291A1 - Device for catching animals living underground in ground corridors. - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for life-catching animals living underground in ground corridors, characterized in that a part of the safety device forms a unit with the natural ground-going environment of the animal.

Description

A device is described for catching animals living underground in ground corridors. The device consists of three parts.

A centering ( 3 ) with a round opening ( 3.1 ) in the average size of a typical mole-earth gait. The opening of the centering is seamlessly applied to a revealed ground passage, which the animal has dug itself. The earth spikes (below the centering) 3.2 ) give the centering a secure hold in the ground.

Furthermore belong to the safety gear Erdbox ( 2 ) and a latch attachment ( 1 ).

The Erdbox has a round opening ( 2.2 ) for the connection of the Erdbox to the centering as well as a second round opening opposite the same height. In addition, the Erdbox has at least 4 snap hooks ( 2.2 ) for connecting the Erdbox to the centering.

The two openings of Erdbox serve as a receptacle of a separate tube ( 4.1 ), which has a minimally smaller diameter than the two openings of Erdbox.

Before filling the Erdbox ( 4 ) with earth ( 4.2 ), the separate tube is pushed through the openings of Erdbox. After pressing the earth in the earth box ( 4.4 ), the tube is pulled out of the earth box, creating a grounded passage surrounded by the earth box.

The actual safety gear is replaced by the latch attachment ( 1 ) educated. The latch attachment has a hinged, insulated lid ( 1.1 ) and an underlying transparent container with some air-permeable holes for the accommodation of nesting material and food ( 1.2 ). Attached laterally to the safety gear is an optical catch indicator ( 1.3 ; 7.2 )), which with a vertically movable, perforated closure ( 1.6 ) is coupled to close the Erdboxöffnung such that the catch indicator is perpendicular when closing the shutter ( 7.1 ). The locking mechanism is triggered by a mechanical shutter release ( 1.5 ), to which a suitable bait can be attached.

The Erdbox and the trap attachment, which are connected by locking each other, are set to catch the animals on the centering ( 6 ). To transport the catch in the case, the two upper, connected by the locking parts of the trap are simply lifted from the centering ( 5 ).

description

The invention relates to a live trap for animals living underground in the underground with at least one trap opening.

Some of the living in Erdhöhlen animals, but especially the mole, are under protection. Therefore, life traps have prevailed against the animals that are unpopular in gardens, which make it possible to release the trapped animals elsewhere alive and viable in nature.

Known live traps for animals living in ground aisles usually consist of a tubular or box-shaped hollow catching device made of wood, metal or plastic, in which the animal is to be lured by means of a bait ( DE 19634536 A1 ; DE 21 2010 000 040 ). The usual traps provide either a window on the safety gear or electronic sensors to check whether a catch has taken place. DE 19634536 A1 ), which forward the catch to an optical / acoustic signaling device.

The known traps, however, all presuppose that the animals move away from their usual Erdgang environment and penetrate because of their Fresstriebs in an alien environment for them already due to the used Fang-device material. However, rodents living in ground aisles often perceive disturbing interventions in their habitual environment as disturbing. Foreign materials are only entered hesitantly or not at all. Moles z. B. have no high vision, but have in their nose and hair on the head very pronounced tactile and sensory organs, which allow them a comprehensive and accurate perception of their environment. Through their excellent sensory and tactile organs, the moles around the known life traps, which they perceive as foreign and potentially dangerous due to the strange materials, make a big bow. Therefore, the known traps are limited in their catching effectiveness.

In the known live traps the trapped animal dwells until removal or release of the animal into the freedom in the foreign and unknown to the animal safety gear. The fact that the known life traps do not mimic the natural and habitual environment of the animal, the captive animals are additionally stressed by their very strange environment, which can lead to the death of the animal.

To counteract the danger that once caught animals in the safety gear If they starve to death or die from frost, the traps set on the animal's passageways must be checked at least daily.

Some of the known life traps only want to be able to control the traps by attaching viewing windows to the trapping devices. Others use an electronic buzzer connected to the trap such that once an animal is firmly seated in the trap, it transmits an electrical signal to a display receiver device to the trapper.

In the case of the known live traps, where only one inspection window is attached to the traps, the trap must be checked for catch without any prior indication of whether a catch has taken place. This solution is very little effective and very expensive for the case controller at the same time.

The live traps, which use an electronic sensor signal method as catch control, are more effective than the control method described above. However, it can not be ruled out that the electronics of moles, which are believed to be able to perceive electrical stimuli, may be bothersome and thus interfere with effective capture. In addition, the electrical system must be protected against moisture and the weather, which makes the production of such systems more expensive. Ultimately, it must always be ensured that the energy is available for the operation of the electronics. If the battery of the auto switch is depleted or oxidized due to moisture in the ground, the catch indicator will not work.

The well-known and frequent life traps, which only have a tube, usually made of plastic, as catching area ( DE 21 2010 000 040 ), are completely unsuitable from an animal welfare point of view. Here, the trapped animal can only move back and forth along the length of the tube. As a result, the animals easily panic, are exposed to enormous stress and often die before they can be freed from the trap again.

Those known live traps which, for reasons of animal welfare, are equipped with a larger catching area in which the trapped animal can move more freely ( DE 299 16034 U1 ), allow more animals to survive the period of captivity in the trap. However, there are no known cases that offer the animals living in ground lanes an environment close to their usual habitat. Even in the known life traps, which provide the animals with more space to survive in the trap, the completely unknown environment and the lack of sufficient grave possibilities will usually lead to the animals being exposed to considerable stress, which often leads to the death of the animals the trap leads.

The object of the invention is ( 1 ) significantly increase the catching effectiveness of existing live-traps for ground-born animals, 2 ) create a trap for the live capture of moles and other ground-dwelling animals, which is species-appropriate and which significantly enhances the chances of survival of the live-caught animals by their construction, which is close to the natural habitats of the animals; 3 ) create a trap that has a simple but robust and weather-resistant catch indicator for catch control.

The task to 1 ) is achieved by a living trap of the type described above, in which an artificially using a pipe ( 4.1 ) created Erdgang of the lower part of the trap, the Erdbox ( 2 ), is enclosed and is applied to the existing duct system of the animal that the animal does not have to deal with a strange, unfamiliar and unknown material from the environment to be caught. The animal will not be scared by the trap's environment, but will be in its usual ground aisle environment when handling the shutter bait release mechanism ( 1.5 ) to the closure ( 1.6 ) touched the simulated Erdgangs to get to the bait bait. In multiple tests, this new type of safety gear has proven to be significantly more efficient than previously known case designs. Preferably, the same earth is used for filling the earth box, in which the animals have created their aisles, such as the earth of the mound below which one has exposed the earth passage of the animals. This allows the animal to distinguish the artificially created with the pipe Erdgang barely from its own gears until the release mechanism and closing the return path.

The task to 2 ) is inventively solved by a life trap of the type described above, in which the trapped animal can spend up to Lebend removal and dismissal into nature in a natural environment inspired traps housing (Erdbox with Erdgang and Fallen essay with nesting material and food) while providing sufficient digging, food and nesting material. What is new in this case is that the trap encloses the natural environment of the animal and is not merely put into it. The soil in the earth box as well as the nesting materials located above it in the trap attachment provide the mole with a natural environment adapted and very similar to this environment, in which he is not restricted, enough to move and hide as well as can absorb the food deposited for the animal. Experiments have shown that the mole pierces the artificial Erdgang upward as soon as he has noticed that the return to his own Erdgangsystem through the opening closure ( 1.6 ) has been closed. This collapses the artificial earth aisle. The Erdbox and the interior of the Fallenaufsatzes then form a sufficiently sized (catch) space in which the animal can create a small cave under the ground or with the nesting material, in which it feels safe. The additional food in the bowl prevents the animal from starving during his captivity. Small air holes on the latch attachment provide sufficient oxygen.

The isolation of the trap top lid helps to prevent the animal from freezing during his captivity. The nesting material, which is placed in the trap attachment and which should preferably consist of dry leaves or the like, also promotes the isolation of the trap and serves to protect the animal from freezing.

The task to 3 ) is achieved according to the invention by a life trap of the type described above, in which on the side of the case a catch flag modeled after a flag ( 7 ) is attached. The catch indicator is as long as the trap closure ( 1.6 ) has not been triggered, level on the trap. If the catch closure of the case described above is activated, it also releases via a spring mechanism with the mechanical catch shutter release ( 1.5 ) from its position and is perpendicular to the trap ( 7.1 ), so that he clearly surpasses them. Preferably, the signal generator is held in a clearly visible signal color, which in one embodiment may also be fluorescent in order to clearly indicate the triggering of the trap mechanism from afar. The catch indicator, which is kept simple in its mechanics, makes it easy to catch the trap. If, when the catch lid is triggered by lifting the insulated lid of the trap, one has been convinced that an animal has been caught alive, then the animal in the trap can be safely transported to the place where it is to be released again. The animal must and should not be touched, so as not to stress it and thus possibly endanger his life.

It is usually sufficient to open the trap at the destination. The animal usually crawls independently again through the opening to freedom. If the animal does not come out through the opening of the trap, you can simply tilt the trap gently and slowly to the side, so that the animal, together with the soil and the nesting material, tilts out.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

case essay

1.1

Hinged, insulated lid

1.2

Transparent container for nesting material and food

1.3

Optical catch indicator

1.4

ventilations

1.5

Mechanical shutter release

1.6

Vertically movable shutter

2

Erdbox

2.1

Latch for connecting the Erdbox to the latch attachment

2.2

Ground box opening for connection to the centering

3

centering

3.1

Lug opening of the centering for connection to the existing duct system

3.2

Ground spikes

4

Filling the earth box

4.1

Separate pipe

4.2

earth

4.3

Inserted tube ( 4.1 )

4.4

Earthbox ( 2 )

5

Trap in transport position

6

Trap completely

7

Optical catch indicator

7.1

Indicator in tripped position

7.2

Indicator in unfired position

QUOTES INCLUDE IN THE DESCRIPTION

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Cited patent literature

• DE 19634536 A1 [0011, 0011]
• DE 212010000040 [0011, 0018]
• DE 29916034 U1 [0019]

Claims (4)

A device for life-catching animals living underground in ground corridors, characterized in that a part of the safety device forms a unit with the natural ground-going environment of the animal. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the catcher attachment shows a mechanically triggered, optical catch signal, which facilitates the control of the trap. Apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the catching container contains a tube which, after the grounding box belonging to the catching element has been filled with earth and compacted, is removed, so that a stable, yet pure, hollow hole is formed in the catching container. Apparatus according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the catching attachment for releasing the animal into the freedom separately from the case centering, which attaches to the ground passage of the animal, can be removed, so that the trap if necessary several times at exactly the same place for Catch can be used without re-fitting the trap would be necessary.

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