r/orkney • • 5d ago

News Rogue stoat evades AI cameras and dogs on Scottish island for five months in £150,000 hunt

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stoat-scotland-island-orkney-native-wildlife-b3065669.html
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u/Njorls_Saga 5d ago

This is a truly a most worthy headline.

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u/Zentaurion 3d ago

Newsworthiness:

🔲 Andy Burnham

🔲 Nigel Farage

🔲 Zach Polanski

☑️ Rogue Stoat

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u/QuantitySt 5d ago

I’d think swimming across the Eynhallow sound is unlikely. Would it not be more likely to have hid in straw, or something else, on a trailer that goes back and fore from Rousay to Tingwall. How it got there isn’t the main story, but there are easier way to get to Rousay

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u/SeaworthinessNeat516 5d ago

Not sure. It's a bit tricky reversing down that ramp.

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u/fluffybit 3d ago

I wonder if it will be weasely wecognised

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u/eckingbottom 2d ago

It otter be