Shamelessly stolen from mastodon post about protection efforts in Czech Republic.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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I am native speaker and I also didn't understand it until it was explained later in the article.
I think that better term would be technological trap - unintentionally made trap using bad technology.
It is really shocking the things we don't think of that can trap an animal due to their anatomies being so different to ours.
In our neighborhood, the drains from the roof gutters go to some underground pipe network, and twice the one summer I got 2 birds out of them before they died or fell too deep.
I had been hearing a scratching sound next to my patio and knew something was inside, but I had no clue what it was. I disconnected the pipe, and a birds face popped out and then it shot off into the woods as fast as it could.
A month or so later, I saw a neighbor looking at their pipe in a confused manner and I heard the same sound and got that one out.
I've pulled a few frogs out of the storm drain too before they got swept away or sun baked.
We do a good job making most things human proof nowadays, but we could do a little more to keep the animals safe yet as well.