"If we can show this lasts... we've just tapped into a billion-dollar market"

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Posted by tribu on Feb-20-2006 01:52:

"If we can show this lasts... we've just tapped into a billion-dollar market"

CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) -- A tiger's roar might be scary, but Australian researchers have found that the predator's poo is just as potent.

Researchers at the University of Queensland said on Friday they had successfully trailed a tiger poo repellant, warding off wild goats for at least three days.

"Goats wouldn't have seen a tiger from an evolutionary point of view for at least 15 generations but they recognize the smell of the predator," repellent creator Peter Murray said in a statement.

"If we can show this lasts weeks ... we've just tapped into probably a billion-dollar market. It's enormous," he said.

Murray said the repellant, made of fatty acids and sulphuric compounds extracted from tiger excrement, also worked on feral pigs, kangaroos and rabbits and might deter deer, horses and cattle too.

In an average year pest animals cause about A$420 million (U.S. $311 million) worth of agricultural damage in Australia the government has said.

Others put the cost in the billions, mostly from European imports such as rabbits, foxes and crop-choking weeds.

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Posted by LiGHT78 on Feb-20-2006 01:56:

FINALLY MY CROPS WILL BE SAFE

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Feb-20-2006 02:19:

Holy crap

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Feb-20-2006 02:21:

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
is the tiger poo subject supposed to make this funny or something?

science is not a joke Josh4

You should take this shit seriously

Posted by DarkAngel on Feb-20-2006 02:23:

Posted by SuspicionVandit on Feb-20-2006 02:52:

people stay away from my packages on the sidewalk too