KR102366738B1 - trap for mammals of sciuridae - Google Patents

Abstract

It is a box-type trap that can be installed on a tree, etc., has an entrance hole with a diameter of 4 to 6 cm on the front, and has a depth of 35 to 50 cm from the entrance hole to the floor. Disclosed is a squirrel trapping frame, characterized in that at least one of an inlet and the imaging means that can be used are installed. In this case, the inlet may be made in the form of a slit so that a bar-type imaging means such as a smartphone can be inserted, and the capture frame may include an imaging means that is installed at all times.
According to the present invention, it can be easily checked whether a squirrel is inside, and when a squirrel is contained, it can be easily and safely lifted, thereby enabling efficient detection and capture of the squirrel.

Description

Squirrel trap {trap for mammals of sciuridae}

The present invention relates to a squirrel trapping mold, and more particularly, to a squirrel trapping mold capable of increasing the capture efficiency of sciuridae animals and reducing the effort required for capture and identification.

The squirrel is an animal that can be seen a lot in the wild, and the squirrel is assumed to include all animals of the sciuridae family. Squirrels and flying squirrels are representative mammals of the Squirrel family inhabiting Korea. Recently, sugar gliders imported from overseas for breeding purposes have been thrown away, and there has been a case of propagation in the wild.

In order to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem by some alien species, some individuals were captured for the purpose of ecological research, and many individuals were captured for export as pets, but systematic research is still very lacking. .

In Korea, there are cases in which bird nests are used as artificial nests or trapping frames for research and protection management of Sciuridae, but a dedicated artificial nest or trapping frame has not yet been developed.

If a trap is used as a trap, a tong trap such as a chalco will not be a problem for removing individuals, but it is not recommended for catching small individuals such as squirrels as it can cause great damage.

Small mammal traps, such as Sherman traps or live-traps, have a very low capture rate of squirrels, so their efficiency is low, and even in this case, there is a risk of injury and excessive stress to the individual.

Using the ecological characteristic of squirrels forming nests using tree holes, a birdhouse is attached to a tree, and when this birdhouse is used as a nest by the squirrel, it is also conceivable that such a birdhouse is used as a kind of trapping frame.

However, the existing birdhouse-type squirrel house or squirrel trapping frame has a diameter of about 3 cm at the entrance, so it was inconvenient for large enough squirrels to use it as a house, and there were aspects that were not suitable for catching squirrels.

In addition, the existing birdhouse-type squirrel house is not deep enough from the entrance hole to the floor by 20~30cm, so when a squirrel puts leaves or branches on the floor to use it as a house, the squirrel body is exposed to the outside through a hole, etc. There were parts that were not suitable as

While these factors limit the use of the birdhouse-type squirrel cage as a trapping frame, the existing birdhouse-type squirrel cage does not open at the side or opens by moving the side downwards. There was a problem that it was not easy to do, and there was no suitable means to inspect the inside of the squirrel house, so there was the inconvenience of blocking the entrance and other holes of the squirrel house and checking whether there are moving objects inside. , there was a problem that interfered with life.

Korean utility model application 20-2002-0037089 Republic of Korea Patent Registration 10-0854570

An object of the present invention is to provide a squirrel trapping frame having a configuration that can solve the problems in use of the existing squirrel trapping frame.

An object of the present invention is to provide a squirrel trap that can easily check whether a squirrel is contained therein, and can easily and safely lift a squirrel if it is contained therein.

An object of the present invention is to provide a squirrel trap that can reduce stress without harming the capture object and perform high-probability capture through prior information acquisition.

The squirrel trapping frame for achieving the above object is a box-type trapping frame that can be installed on a tree, etc., has an entrance hole with a diameter of 4 to 6 cm on the front, and has a depth of 35 to 50 cm from the entrance hole to the floor, It is characterized in that the inlet through which the imaging means can be introduced is installed above the inlet hole for observation, the imaging means is installed, or both the inlet and the imaging means are installed.

In the present invention, the inlet may be made in the form of a slit so that a bar-shaped imaging means such as a smartphone can be inserted.

In the present invention, the imaging means installed in the squirrel trapping frame may include a memory and a battery capable of storing the captured image. In this case, the imaging means may be a motion-sensing sensor camera or a heat-sensing sensor camera that has a motion detection sensor and is operated for a predetermined time after detection, and may include an image transmission means capable of transmitting the captured image to the outside. Transmission of image information may be performed by a command or signal received from the outside, or may be performed automatically along with shooting by sensor detection or under certain conditions. In this case, the image transmission command may be received through wired or wireless communication with a means such as a smart phone having an application program, and for this purpose, a receiving means needs to be provided.

In the present invention, the box-type squirrel trapping frame may further include a bottom-up opening/closing device capable of rotating and opening a part of the wall from the bottom to the top in an opening/closing manner.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an effective squirrel trapping mold that can solve the problems in using the existing squirrel trapping mold.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a squirrel trap having a means for easily checking whether a squirrel is contained therein, and for easily and safely lifting the squirrel if it is contained therein.

1 is a perspective view of a squirrel trapping frame according to an embodiment of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a conceptual view showing the opening method of the side wall in the embodiment of Figure 1;
3 is a photograph showing one form of a squirrel trapping frame installed in a tree according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail through specific examples with reference to the drawings.

1 is a perspective view of a squirrel trapping frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing an opening method of a side wall in the embodiment of FIG. 1 .

In this embodiment, the squirrel trap 100 is roughly viewed in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped box formed vertically, and for this purpose, the upper wall 150 forming the roof, the side walls of the front and rear left and right four rooms below it, and the lower surface forming the floor A wall 140 is provided. These walls can be made of other materials, but they are usually formed using wood planks to get used to the texture of the wild animal squirrel.

Here, the front wall 110 serves as an entrance so that the squirrel can enter the inside of the trapping frame, and a circular entrance hole 111 with a diameter of about 4 to 6 cm as indicated by the double arrow B is installed. If the diameter of the entrance is as small as 3cm or 3.5cm like the existing bird's nest type, it is difficult for squirrels to use it, and if it is too large, about 7 or 8cm, owls and other predators can use it, making it unsuitable as the entrance to the squirrel trap.

The inlet hole 111 is located 5 to 10 cm below the top of the front wall 110 as indicated by the double arrow A, and is located approximately 35 to 50 cm above the bottom of the front wall 110 as indicated by the double arrow C Therefore, even when a bed is prepared by stacking leaves or twigs about 20 cm on the floor, the body of the squirrel is not easily visible from the entrance hole.

One of the left and right side walls, here, when viewed from the front, the right side wall 120 has an upper end slightly spaced apart from the upper wall to form a horizontal slit or gap 121 . When combined with the front wall 110 and the rear wall 130, the upper end of the right side wall 120 is rotatably fixed, and the lower end is not fixed. The lower surface of this floor is spaced apart from the wall and gradually opens wide. The lower end of the right side wall 120 is formed to extend downward than the lower wall 140 so that a person can rotate the right side wall 120 to easily open it.

This upward rotation method is advantageous for the maintenance of the capture frame compared to the downward rotation method when catching squirrels, and it can be used more conveniently to inspect the inside and carry out the capture.

At this time, the slit or gap 121 has a width of about 2 cm, a size that a squirrel cannot enter and a size that can be inserted into an imaging device such as a bar-type smart phone. Operating a separate permanent imaging device or operating an infrared camera for a squirrel house or trap may be difficult and inappropriate to supply driving power due to the nature of the installation in the wild. If a mobile phone or smartphone equipped with a camera, which is currently used by most, is inserted through this gap, it is possible to see the inside secretly from the outside without a separate endoscope camera and do not open the right side wall 120 You can even look deep down inside the box to see if a squirrel is inside.

In addition, if there is no gap 121, the upper angled portion of the right side wall 120 collides with the upper wall 150 and cannot rotate, so this gap 121 forms a free space that enables rotation.

The upper wall 150 is made to serve as a kind of roof in the box-type trapping frame, and is slightly smaller than this rectangle to sufficiently cover the rectangle formed by the imaginary cross-section of the lower side wall or lower wall 140 forming the floor. formed over a larger area. The upper wall 150 may be installed to have a slight inclination so that rainwater flows down naturally.

A part of the front of the upper wall 150 protrudes (extends) forward from the front wall 110 among the four side walls, so that the entrance hole in the front wall is not easily exposed to rainwater. A part of the side of 150 protrudes laterally than the left and right side walls in which slits (gaps) are formed in the center of the four walls, so that the slits are not easily exposed to rainwater. It can serve as an eaves.

On the other hand, rings are installed on both the upper and lower sides of the squirrel trapping frame. Such a ring can be formed, for example, by driving hooks 131 into both sides of the rear wall. The part 131b refers to a part in which a ring is formed.

If such a hook 131 is used, as shown in the photo of FIG. 3 , the squirrel trapping frame can be installed on the tree trunk using an elastic rubber band (stretch cord) or string, and can be easily attached and detached. In addition, the trapping frame can be installed without disturbing or damaging the growth of the tree trunk.

In addition, in this embodiment, an observation hole is formed in the central portion of the upper wall, and a self-image-capturing device such as a sensor camera 160 capable of capturing an image of the inside of the capture frame below it through the observation hole is installed on the upper surface. The sensor camera 160, as used in the past, starts capturing motion when it detects a motion, and may take a still picture or take a still picture to store the image in a memory device as digital data. The fact that the squirrel is detected can be transmitted to the outside in the form of data, and it may be made by providing a power source such as a secondary battery to operate this function. Of course, in order to transmit/receive, it is necessary to have a wired/wireless transmission/reception device.

For example, the self-imaging device may have a transceiver capable of receiving a command signal from the control device to perform imaging and transmitting the captured image to the surroundings, and if an appropriate application program (app) is installed in the smartphone, the smartphone It can act as a control device. In this case, when a person approaches and runs an app with a smartphone and sends an imaging command wirelessly, the imaging device receives the signal to take an image, and sends the captured image to the smartphone to store the image. and display, or by sending an image already stored by the sensor camera method to the smartphone, the smartphone may store and display the image.

An application program, a transceiver, and a communication method for this purpose are widely known or can be easily configured, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In another embodiment, when the sensor camera detects a movement, it transmits an image and a detection fact, and a nearby base access point (AP) relays it and sends it to the central monitoring center, and the operator of the monitoring sensor confirms this and sends a signal. It is also possible to approach the squirrel trap where the corresponding sensor camera is installed to capture the squirrel.

The capture can be carried out by accumulating a large number of data to check the behavior pattern and approaching the capture frame at a time when the probability of capture is high, or it can be carried out frequently by approaching the shortest time. It is desirable to check whether the squirrel is actually in the frame and conduct the capture.

When performing the capture, for example, after blocking the entrance hole and wrapping the periphery of the capture frame with a net, the side wall can be opened upward in an opening and closed manner so that the inside squirrel can enter the net.

Although the embodiment shown for the present invention has been described with reference to the above, this is only exemplary, and various modifications may be made therefrom by those skilled in the art, all or part of the above-described embodiment It will be understood that may be selectively combined and configured. Accordingly, the true technical protection scope of the present invention should be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

100: squirrel trap 110: front wall
111: entrance hole 120: right side wall
121: gap 130: rear wall
131: hook 140: lower wall
150: upper wall 160: sensor camera

Claims (6)

delete As a box-shaped trapping frame,
It has an inlet hole with a diameter of 4 cm to 6 cm on the front side, and a depth from the inlet hole to the floor is 35 cm to 50 cm, and an inlet through which the imaging means can be introduced is installed above the inlet hole so that the inside can be observed from above, An imaging means is installed, or both the inlet and the imaging means are installed,
The inlet is rotatably opened between the upper end of the side wall and the upper wall made of the upper wall, a bar-type mobile phone with a built-in camera as the imaging means can be put into the squirrel, characterized in that made in the form of a slit through which the squirrel cannot pass. catch frame. 3. The method of claim 2,
The imaging means is permanently installed so that the inside can be seen through the observation hole formed in the upper wall, and a memory for storing the captured image information or a transmission means for externally transmitting the image information. Squirrel trap. 4. The method of claim 3,
The imaging means is a sensor camera,
and an image information transmission means capable of transmitting the captured image information to the outside;
Image information transmission is a squirrel trap, characterized in that by receiving an image information transmission command signal by wireless communication with a smartphone having an application program. 5. The method of claim 4,
and the imaging means includes a transmission means to notify the fact of detection by transmitting a detection signal to the outside at the same time as the sensor camera detects it. 5. The method of claim 4
and the imaging means receives an image information transmission command signal through wireless communication with a smartphone having the application program, starts imaging, and transmits the image information.

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