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Subsistance farmers in Africa have a big problem.

Lions keep hunting their cows.

Now this is terrible news for the farmers, they're losing their cows.

It's bad news for the cows, they're getting eaten,

but it's also really bad news for the lions because then the farmers end up killing the lions to defend their cows.

Joining us now via Skype is Dr. Neil Jordan. He's a conservation biologist and he's come up with an idea to help all three.

The idea is based on the fact that lions are ambush predators,

so that means they rely on the element of surprise to creep up on their

on their prey once they've been seen they tend to give up on the hunt so they're very much into surprise

So the idea is to try and interrupt that mechanism by painting eyes on the backs of cows and try to fool the

lions into thinking they've been seen and give up on the hunt.

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