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New DelhicCase:> Indian Railways have come up with a novel way of getting elephants to buzz off from train tracks: speakers that play the sound of bees to scare the jumbos away.
Almost 70 elephants were killed by trains between 2013 and June this year, mostly in the north-eastern state of Assam and northern West Bengal. Nearly 50 buzzing amplifiers have been deployed as part of ‘Plan Bee’ at a dozen “elephant corridors” in the vast forests of Assam state, home to nearly 6,000 elephants, 20 percent of the country’s total.
“The buzzing is played as trains approach vulnerable points and can be heard up to half a mile away,” Pranav Jyoti Sharma, an Indian Railways spokesperson, told AFP.
The devices were tested for efficiency in 2017 on domesticated elephants, and then wild ones, before they were deployed for real last year. Elephants have long been known to be frightened by the buzzing of bees and stings. (AFP)
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11/07/2019
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