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gryphon
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WTF..ONLY IN QLD
      #50196 - 17/02/06 10:35 PM


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Last Update: Friday, February 17, 2006. 10:16am (AEDT)
Tiger poo may help farmers combat feral animals

Farmers could have a new weapon in the fight against feral animals.

Researchers at the University of Queensland's Gatton campus, in the state's south, have been trialing an extract made from tiger droppings to scare away goats.

PhD student Tanya Cox says the goats recognise and are scared of the smell from the predator.

She says the trials will be extended to kangaroos, feral pigs and rabbits and could be a huge benefit for farmers.

"Rather than going out there and erecting a fence which costs money, if you can go out there with one person who can just sprinkle this almost like fertiliser sized pellets around to keep your herbivores away, then that's going to reduce costs not only in terms of material but in manpower," she said.
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Bushie
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Re: WTF..ONLY IN QLD [Re: gryphon]
      #50242 - 18/02/06 03:22 PM

Should be equally as effective as those high frequency sound generators that were going to make ringlock (fencing wire) a thing of the past .

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Re: WTF..ONLY IN QLD [Re: gryphon]
      #50247 - 18/02/06 04:25 PM

I have been reading a book called the "The Amazing SAS" and it is about the SAS in East Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq and in one chapter on Afghanistan it tells how goat herds were getting to close to hidden obsevation posts and the behaviour of the goats may be noticed by hostile forces so they tried all sorts of ways to get the goats to leave the area, one was to put tiger shit and urine on and around the bushes the goats were eating but the goats ate the tiger shit and the leaves dripping with tiger urine!!!!! it may have been cheaper for the Univesity to buy the book instead of expensive trials! I suppose it gives someone a job.

Steve

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