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IIRC, In Sundarban Delta (India/Bangladesh) people put on masks on the back of the head for similar reasons. EDIT: Yeap, here's NYT article from 1989 https:/
by advaita 6y ago
IIRC, In Sundarban Delta (India/Bangladesh) people put on masks on the back of the head for similar reasons.
EDIT: Yeap, here's NYT article from 1989
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/science/face-masks-fool-the-bengal-tigers.html https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/science/face-masks-fool-t...
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- sircastor 6y agoThis reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin, having read about this practice, makes his own mask to protect himself from Hobbes' pouncing. [1] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/23 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/23
- tome 6y agoThat's cool. The comic was about one year after the newspaper, so perhaps it got into the public consciousness during that period!
- erikig 6y agoRelated: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/25 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/25 The outcome of Calvin's "experiment"
- ravoori 6y agoApparently putting on a mask at the back of the head stopped working after a while https://books.google.com/books?id=zU7PmIjthpoC&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=zU7PmIjthpoC&pg=PA38#v=one...