Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

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The research team determined that the city of Raipur in central India has at least one street cow for every 54 human residents. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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0:00.0	The Beatles, now and then.
0:02.0	The last Beatles, out now.
0:14.0	Out now.
0:15.0	This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.
0:20.0	I'm Christopher in Taliata.
0:24.8	Cattle are a common site in Indian cities,
0:27.7	but some end up in busy intersections and on highways,
0:30.6	where they cause accidents and traffic jams.
0:34.0	From blocking traffic to damaging greens and residential colonies,
0:38.0	untended cattle have become a nuisance in Delhi.
0:41.0	And the nuisance extends beyond Delhi.
0:44.0	All these problems is very intense in many Indian cities.
0:48.6	Atanupatiz studies animal behavior at Pandy Ravishankar Shukla University in Raipur, that's in Central India.
0:56.1	He and his colleagues wanted to find out just how many cows lived on the streets of
0:59.6	Raipur.
1:00.6	So they took a census.
1:02.4	They divided the city into 163 grids, each consisting of one square
1:06.9	kilometer. Then they randomly selected 20 of those grids and started counting.
1:11.5	We used two methods.
1:13.4	One is a direct head count.
1:15.7	The other was photographic.
1:17.2	They'd take pictures in those same grids over a few days
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