These Guys Placed Robot-Dog Inside Zoo, The Animals Did Not Like It

By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory

As a part of a study based on animal enrichment, animals at the Sydney Zoo were introduced to Sparky, a robot-dog.

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RoboEvents filmed a video where they tested out animal enrichment possibilities using robots in a zoo. This was filmed in June of 2021 and was comparatively a new research program back then.

The Video Of The First Interaction Of The Robot-Dog With Animals

The video begins with Brett, who is the cheetah expert at the Sydney zoo.

He was asked about how the animals would react to which he replied, 

“It might not go too well with the lions, I’m guessing. But I’m thinking it might go well with the cheetahs.”

We then see Mauritz, on-screen, who was the General Manager.

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The cheetahs were the first animals to take gaze at this robot-dog. They came quite close to the edge of the enclosure and took everything in, in detail, when the robot-dog was led in.
It was something that they had seen for the first time in their lives.

One of the cheetahs began to hiss at the robot-dog, from inside the enclosure, which might have been a precautionary sign, as deemed by the experts. The expert added that the cheetahs “wanted to go after it and not be repelled by it.”

When the cheetahs were each introduced to the robot dog, they charged at it but pulled up short as they did not know what to make of this new animal in their enclosure.

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There was a moment where the cheetah even moved back and sort of defended itself against this intrude. 

Here is the video where the cheetahs stood close to the robot and assessed it in every way possible:

You can make out the intelligence of these cats as they were trying to study the robot-dog as much as these experts were studying the cats, in their enclosures.