Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Not getting your goat

In Jurassic Park they used a goat to lure Tyrannosaurus Rex out. In India they're using a similar method to capture leopards which wander out ofthe jungle into villages and sometimes attack people.
But this time they're using special effects ... mobile phone ringtones of cows mooing, goats bleating and roosters crowing. Local rangers download the tones, attach their phones to speakers behind a cage then play the sound continuously until the leopard arrives, and walks into the cage looking for the animal. The method was introduced last month and already 5 leopards have been captured and released back into forest areas. Wildlife activists welcomed the new initiative saying that previous methods of trapping the cats using pits often resulted in the animals getting injured - and it wasn't very good for the goats either!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

ha ha ha! cell phones to captue leopards! :)