FOR the moment, the Bengal tiger has met its match in the two-faced human.
That finding was a matter of life or death in an experiment being conducted in the Ganges Delta in India, where tigers living under protection in a reserve had been killing about 60 people a year.
Arguing that this predator only attacks people from behind, workers in the mangrove forests started wearing face masks on the backs of their heads. Thus far the trick appears to have worked.
''For the past three years, no one wearing a mask has been killed,'' said Peter Jackson, chairman of the cat specialist group of the World Conservation Union. ''Tigers have been seen following people wearing the mask, but they have not attacked.''
By contrast, 29 people who were not wearing the masks were killed there in the last 18 months, officials reported.
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Mr. Jackson, who was in Rome for a meeting of the conservation union's Species Survival Commission last month, brought an example of the trick that fooled the tiger: an inexpensive, rubber mask of a pale-faced human with a thin mustache. He said the Indian Forestry Service has issued more than 2,500 masks to workers who are among the 8,000 who get permits to go into the Sundarban Tiger Reserve. Stopping to Pray
mcke0119 on July 19th, 2018 at 15:02 UTC »
According to this article the masks stopped working. https://www.thenational.ae/world/asia/the-tiger-widows-of-the-sundarbans-1.451719
Beefsupreme473 on July 19th, 2018 at 14:17 UTC »
TIL Tigers work like the Boo ghosts in Mario.
thr33beggars on July 19th, 2018 at 14:09 UTC »
Who would win in a fight: a velociraptor from Jurassic Park or a tiger?
Edit: Yes, I know the velociraptors in real life are much smaller than the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. This is why I said “a velociraptor from Jurassic Park.”