Lives could be saved and crops protected by playing sounds of growling tigers to wild elephants on their way to raid fields in India, a study reports. There have been hundreds of deaths and much crop loss in the last decade in areas where elephants come into contact with people.
The study, published in the current edition of Biology Letters, looked at the night time behaviour of elephants, and particularly their reaction to 'aggressive' tiger and leopard growls, in villages bordering two animal reserves in the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala.
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