The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is trying to check elephant fatalities on its tracks by installing devices that would play the recorded sound of buzzing bees, a natural bete noire of the behemoths.<br/><br/>A railway official said in Alipurduar, the NFR has decided to implement the idea for its Alipurduar division in West Bengal after the plan turned out to be successful in Rangiya division of Assam.<br/><br/>A test is being conducted by playing a similar buzzing sound through an amplifier at a few spots to keep the animals at bay and prevent trains from hitting them, the official said.<br/> <br/>The humming of bees is downloaded from the Internet and played over an amplifier, which can scare elephants upto 600 metres away, he said.<br/>There are 27 elephant corridors under the NFR which covers north Bengal, parts of eastern Bihar and the North East.<br/><br/>Last week, five elephants died near the rail tracks at Habaipur near Lumding reserve forest in Assam when the Guwahati-Silchar Express hit them.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is trying to check elephant fatalities on its tracks by installing devices that would play the recorded sound of buzzing bees, a natural bete noire of the behemoths.<br/><br/>A railway official said in Alipurduar, the NFR has decided to implement the idea for its Alipurduar division in West Bengal after the plan turned out to be successful in Rangiya division of Assam.<br/><br/>A test is being conducted by playing a similar buzzing sound through an amplifier at a few spots to keep the animals at bay and prevent trains from hitting them, the official said.<br/> <br/>The humming of bees is downloaded from the Internet and played over an amplifier, which can scare elephants upto 600 metres away, he said.<br/>There are 27 elephant corridors under the NFR which covers north Bengal, parts of eastern Bihar and the North East.<br/><br/>Last week, five elephants died near the rail tracks at Habaipur near Lumding reserve forest in Assam when the Guwahati-Silchar Express hit them.