Zoo auctions tiger poo
It smells awful and may even frighten your pet moggy, but Chessington World of Adventures is already attracting interest by auctioning off a year’s supply of tiger poo.
Excrement from the zoo’s two tigers is on sale on the ebay internet auction site with a starting bid of £240. In what some may take as proof you can sell anything on the internet, the auction had attracted a bid of £241 by Friday evening.
The park believes it will scare off cats and foxes if placed in people’s gardens.
Research carried out earlier this year found tiger dung is capable of warding off smaller cats, which scientists presume is a genetic trigger warning of larger predators in the area.
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The initial research came from Australia, where scientists found that a formula of the big cat’s droppings warded off wild goats for three days and, as such, could be used as a dual fertiliser and repellent by farmers.
Dr Peter Murray from the University of Queensland said: “You might want to put it around the perimeter or under each tree so it would cause all those herbivorous animals to say “it’s too scary, there’s something here that might bite me”.
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