Dung protects Japanese deer....Environmental News Network, Aug 21
Reuters -- It's a plan that stinks, but it's getting an airing across Asia .. . .railway officials in the largely rural prefecture of Wakayama in western Japan wracked their brains for months for a way to keep wild deer from running onto train tracks and getting killed. They settled on lion dung, to be spread near the tracks.
In both cases, local zoos provided the goods...between January and October -- there have been no accidents since the dung was spread last November... there was a drawback.
"The odor is really, really foul," he said. "So we can only use it on tracks in uninhabited areas."
