Bahraich. In order to catch the man-eating wolf that has become a cause of terror in Mahsi tehsil of Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, the forest department is playing the ‘pre-recorded’ sound of the female wolf screaming and crying on a small loudspeaker. The forest department officials hope that the clever man-eating wolf will be attracted by the screams and cries of the female wolf and will be drawn towards the trap set by the forest officials and will get trapped in the trap.
It is worth noting that earlier the forest department has used or is using elephant dung, ‘teddy dolls’ soaked in children’s urine, firecrackers and thermal drones etc. to catch wolves. Bahraich’s Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ajit Pratap Singh told ‘PTI-Bhasha’, “This time we are doing a new experiment to catch the man-eating wolf. We are playing ‘pre-recorded’ sounds of female wolves crying and screaming on loudspeakers. Experts are keeping the volume of the loudspeaker ‘neither too loud nor too soft’, just enough so that it sounds like the ‘voice of a real female wolf’. It is possible that the attacking wolf, attracted by the voice similar to that of its lost female wolf, comes near the trap we have set and gets trapped in the trap.”
It is worth mentioning that earlier the forest department had made cakes of elephant dung and kept them burning near residential areas, so that the smell of these would make the wolves think that elephants are present there, and out of fear they would not go there and come towards the traps set by the department and get trapped. They had sprinkled children’s urine near the trap and kept colourful teddy bears with the hope that the wolves would come near the trap in the hope of children being there by the smell.
Crackers are being burnt in the areas where the man-eating wolf is likely to be present so that the wolves are driven away from the residential areas and forced to take the planned route. Divisional Forest Officer Singh said, “A wolf attacked and killed a pet goat in Sisayya Churamani village of Mahsi tehsil on Tuesday morning around 4-5 am. People saw the wolf, teams were deployed, a cordon was laid, but during this time hundreds of people from the surrounding area reached there and the wolf escaped.” The DFO said, “The wounds found on the goat’s body look like an attack by a wolf. He said that there is terror of wolves in an area of about 20-25 km.