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- The USDA Is Using Scarlett Johansson And Adam Driver To Scare Off Wolves</p>
<p>Elyse WanshelAugust 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM</p>
<p>This cow-saving tactic might make you howl with laughter.</p>
<p>The United States Department of Agriculture is using audio of actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver to scare off wolves, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.</p>
<p>In the wildly amusing report, the outlet explained that gray wolves in the American West are wreaking havoc on livestock.</p>
<p>"It's basically like driving through Burger King, easy pickings for them," Mary Rickert, the owner of Prather Ranch in Northern California, told the Journal.</p>
<p>Although Rickert has lost as many as 40 calves to the carnivores, she can't just go John Wick on them. The wolves are endangered — which means it's illegal to harm them.</p>
<p>But the USDA has come up with a pretty creative way to keep herds of sheep and cattle from becoming a pack's all-you-can-eat buffet.</p>
<p>Essentially, the agency is using drones equipped with spotlights, loudspeakers and "thermal cameras that can reveal any wolf lurking in the darkness."</p>
<p>When the flying bot spots a wolf near a rancher's animals, it uses the light and the loudspeaker to scare it back into the woods.</p>
<p>Some of the recordings played on the drones' loudspeakers make logical sense — like loud fireworks or gunshots. But others are just straight-up silly, and include AC/DC's "Thunderstuck" and the explosive fight between Johansson's and Driver's characters in Noah Baumbach's 2019 film, "Marriage Story."</p>
<p>"I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad," a USDA district supervisor (who is totally a human and not a canine) named Paul Wolf told the Journal.</p>
<p>As goofy as this all sounds, the Journal says the recordings seem to be working.</p>
<p>The outlet reports that drones were deployed to an area in Oregon where "11 cows were killed by wolves there in a 20-day period." After 85 days of the drones' booming recordings — which hopefully included Johansson screeching, "You gaslighted me; you're a fucking villain!" and Driver yelling, "I was hot shit and I wanted to fuck everybody, but I didn't!" — only two cows were killed.</p>
<p>Although the idea of using a movie scene to scare off wild animals is a bit goofy, the fight scene in "Marriage Story" displays raw human emotions, and Johansson and Driver did deliver intense performances.</p>
<p>"They've lost their voices; they've lost a sense of who they are," Baumbach described the scene to Entertainment Weekly in 2019. "They're trying to figure out what they believe anymore. And that's a dangerous place, I think, for a couple to find themselves."</p>
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