(Phys.org) —Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and ...

He can handle both comedy and drama with aplomb and is always ready for a fight, a shootout, even a dance sequence. He’s a descendant of an Olympian, never complains and is always prepared to work.

If you've ever gone grocery shopping and thought, "I wish a dancer in an inflatable cow costume would shake it to some hot beats in the freezer aisle," you're either a little odd, or you're familiar ...

May 9 (UPI) --Arcade Fire follows an inflatable dancer who goes on a journey in their newly released music video for "Unconditional I (Look Kid)." The inflatable dancer comes to life and starts ...

ASTORIA, Ore., March 18 (UPI) --A city in Oregon is using inflatable "air dancers" in an attempt to scare off unwanted sea lions form a local port's dock. Oregon's Port of Astoria is deploying the ...

Every effort to keep sea lions from overtaking the docks at the Port of Astoria has failed. Inflatable dancers? Why not. They went up Thursday and actually worked. For now. "The thing about the sea ...