农民把狗画得像老虎，以保护农作物不受猴子的伤害

农民把狗画得像老虎，以保护农作物不受猴子的伤害

Monkeys in India apparently can’t tell a tiger from a dog made to look like a tiger — or at least that is what one farmer claims.

印度的猴子们显然分辨不出老虎和看起来像老虎的狗——至少一位农民是这么说的。

The farmer, identified as Srikanth Gowda, said he has been able to protect his coffee crop from monkeys by painting his pet dog Bulbul with black stripes, an Indian news outlet reports.

据印度一家新闻媒体报道，这名名叫斯里坎斯·戈达(Srikanth Gowda)的农民说，他给自己的宠物狗布尔布尔(Bulbul)涂上了黑色条纹，以保护自己的咖啡作物不受猴子的侵害。

“I now take Bulbul to the fields twice a day — in the morning and evening,” Gowda told Asian News International in a report Monday. “I have seen them running away at the sight of the dog. The monkeys now refrain from entering my plantations.”

Gowda在周一的亚洲新闻国际的一篇报道中说:“我现在每天带布尔去田里两次，早上一次，晚上一次。”“我看见他们一看见狗就跑开了。猴子们现在不进我的种植园了。”

ANI posted images of the tiger-looking Bulbul on Twitter.

阿尼在推特上发布了这只画得像老虎的布尔布的照片。

Gowda, who grows coffee in Thirthahalli in the state of Karnataka, turned to the dog after failing to scare off the monkeys with stuffed tiger toys, ANI reported.

据阿尼报道，在卡纳塔克邦瑟塔哈里种植咖啡的戈达在用老虎玩具吓跑猴子失败后，转而求助于这只狗。

Bulbul’s stripes were painted on using hair dye, ANI reported.

阿尼说，布尔身上的条纹是用染发剂染的。

The news outlet quoted Gowda’s daughter as saying that other farmers in the village are now copying her father and painting their dogs to look like tigers.

新闻媒体援引Gowda的女儿的话说，村里的其他农民现在都在模仿她的父亲，把他们的狗画成老虎的样子。