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This despite at least 200 jackals being captured by the forest department in the past six years. We had to take the help of the forest department to tranquilize the animals and take them off the premises,” said Atul Dikshit, Kolkata airport director. The forest department has accepted the proposal and put shooters on standby at their Salt Lake office who will be able to rush to the airport whenever the authorities would call them. But, the official made it clear, the animals could not be kept at bay unless the airport authorities plugged all the gaps a little more wisely. “They have been using barbed wire fences but they need to understand that jackals dig burrows under the walls and sneak into the airport..