Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
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| 0:39.3 | Cattle are a common sight in Indian cities, |
| 0:42.5 | but some end up in busy intersections and on highways, |
| 0:45.5 | where they cause accidents and traffic jams. |
| 0:48.3 | From blocking traffic to damaging greens and residential colonies, |
| 0:52.8 | untended cattle have become a nuisance in Delhi. |
| 0:56.0 | And the nuisance extends beyond Delhi. |
| 0:58.6 | All these problems is very intense in many Indian cities. |
| 1:03.4 | Atanupati studies animal behavior at Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University in Raipur, that's in central India. |
| 1:12.4 | He and his colleagues wanted to find out just how many cows lived on the streets of Raipur. So they took a census. They divided the city |
| 1:18.1 | into 163 grids, each consisting of one square kilometer. Then they randomly selected 20 of those |
| 1:25.0 | grids and started counting. We used two methods. |
| 1:28.5 | One is a direct headcount. |
| 1:30.7 | The other was photographic. |
| 1:32.2 | They'd take pictures in those same grids over a few days |
| 1:35.0 | and count the cows they may have missed. |
| 1:37.5 | By studying those slices of the city, |
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