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Japan train barks & snorts to scare off deer


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Researchers in Japan have fitted a train with a speaker that barks like a dog and snorts like a deer in order to prevent collisions on the railway.

Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reports that the combination of sounds is designed to scare deer away from the tracks in a bid to reduce the number of animal deaths on the railway.

Officials from the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) say that a three-second blast of the sound of a deer snorting attracts the animals' attention, and 20 seconds of dog barking is enough to make them take flight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42714353

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The train making these noises isn't as crazy as it sounds. It's quite a good idea especially as it seems to work.

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