For unmanned systems, the air is a relatively simpler environment than the ground. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), unlike their earth-bound counterparts, do not have to navigate culverts, bridges, people, cars, and other obstacles. The FAA’s anxieties have mostly focused on concerns about privacy and airplane collisions. There is one other problem that we should be worried about: animals. In the battle of rams, hawks, and kangaroos vs. UAVs, the UAVs do not always win.

Hawk vs. Quadcopter

Read about it here.

Bird vs. RC plane

Amazing photography!  Bird is a raptor of some kind.

Ram vs. Quadcopter

Be sure to watch the last part of the video as the ram attacks the operator when he tries to recover his downed quadcopter.

Kangaroo vs. UAV

Somewhere there is a bureaucrat tasked with regulating UAVs, shaking his head, saying, “You mean we have to also worry about freaking kangaroos!”  Read about kangaroo attack here.