We've Left Them No Space: Rhino Struggles To Walk On A Road In The Midst Of Oncoming Traffic
Human settlement and development has come at the cost of invading homes of several animals in the wild. The same animals whose jungle were ripped down to make houses and roads come back to claim their land humans either scare them away or in some cases even kill them. Authorities in some parts of the world are trying to come up with measures and technology to avoid human-animal conflict so that there is no harm to the wildlife.
Human settlement and development has come at the cost of invading homes of several animals in the wild. That is exactly the reason for the ongoing and growing man-animal conflict. When the same animals, whose jungle were ripped down to make houses and roads, come back to claim their land, humans either scare them away or in some cases, even kill them.
Authorities in some parts of the world are trying to come up with measures and technology to avoid human-animal conflict, so that there is no harm to the wildlife.
Mitigating elephant conflict using drone emitting buzzing sound of honey bees. The largest animal on land is terrified of this tiny insects- as the bees r attracted to the water around its eyes & when they get up their trunks- it can go berserk. pic.twitter.com/0StArnlpxB
¡ª Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) October 25, 2019
However, authorities are not and will not always be present whenever there is a clash between animals and humans, and in those cases it is the responsibility of the public to do what it can to not let an animal feel threatened.
IFS Susanta Nanda shared a an old video from Assam which shows a rhinoceros trying to make walk on a road, with vehicles continuously interrupting it. In the video, you can see that the rhino first tries to chase the car that passes it. After that, other vehicles that seem to be blocking its way, miff the rhino who starts chasing a red car.
What you are chasing may end up chasing you & at the end, he will be the one doing the catching. Clip from Assam shared by a friend. Can we learn to allow giving right of way to these God¡¯s super creations?? pic.twitter.com/qSXDXVMNhG
¡ª Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) November 12, 2019
The driver was smart enough to reverse the car and drive in the opposite direction but the other cars just kept passing by the rhino without attempting to create a safe passage for it to pass. Part of the caption reads, ¡®Can we learn to allow giving right of way to these God¡¯s super creations??¡¯, and that is the take-away from the video.
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When we have usurped their habitat, the least we can do is make these animals feel safe. If we cannot even do that, really, who is intruding in whose space?
