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Ele-texting. Kenyan Elephants have been warning local rangers that they are nearing the crops of neighbouring villages through the use of text messages. 


2008-12-07 - OI Pejeta, Kenya. Rachel Sutcliffe

Elephants of the OI Pejeta conservancy have been fitted with SIM cards on their necks which, when they reach the perimeter of local villages, automatically sends the rangers text messages. A virtual fence was implemented after an almost extinct breed, the Bull Elephant, raided crops during harvest, costing the locals as much as six months work and pay. This resulted in the Kenyan Wildlife Service reluctantly having to shoot five particularly persistent animals.


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