At the Catch of a Ringtone

  • 22/07/2007

  • India Today (New Delhi)

Forest guards use mobile ringtones to capture rogue leopards wandering into human settlements The clever cat is just so silent. What if we put a bell on it.. .But the problem is, who would bell the cat?" This predicament from the Aesop's fable is known to school children. The problem remains the same even today but the officials of Gujarat's Forest Department have turned it on its head to find a solution. Instead of belling the cats, they are using bells to ensnare the bigger and the more dangerous members of the species. The bells used this time are more modern