Officials
in India say Obsession cologne may help trap animal that has killed nine people
Michael
Safi in Delhi
Tue 9 Oct
2018 16.17 BSTLast modified on Wed 10 Oct 2018 04.57 BST
Wildlife authorities
in India trying to catch a tiger thought to have killed at least nine people
say they are considering the use of an unconventional weapon: Calvin Klein’s
Obsession cologne.
The
six-year-old tiger, given the name T1, has been accused of preying on people in
Pandharkawada, a town in Maharashtra state.
Rangers
have thrown significant resources into their attempts to capture the animal.
One of five elephants brought in to
try to corral the big cat reportedly went rogue last
week and trampled through a nearby village, killing a woman.
Sunil
Limaye, a wildlife official involved in the hunt, said his team was still
deciding whether to deploy the men’s fragrance, but it was an option.
The power
of Obsession to lure big cats was first established by experiments at Bronx zoo
in New York in 2003. The key ingredient is a synthetic version of the musk
secreted by the civet, a small nocturnal mammal whose glandular liquid is
prized for its powerful aroma.
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