Tag: horns
India’s honk-happy drivers are switching to even louder horns
By Omkar Khandekar MUMBAI, India — If there is anything as inescapable in this Indian megacity as the humidity, it’s the noisy traffic. Drivers honk at pedestrians and each other. They honk to beat the traffic signal, or when the signal beats them. In one not-so-scientific survey NPR conducted at an intersection near its bureau…
Rhino horns made radioactive to foil traffickers in South African project
Isotopes can be detected at airports and borders even in large containers and are harmless to the animals A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinoceroses with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents. Under the collaborative project…