how to protect yourself from elephants

Category: life in camp
Date: October 17th 2007
By: admin

Guess what this is.

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Initially, we had just a plastic tank as is normal in many homes. After several problems with elephants however, we became wiser. They broke into the tank repeatedly and actually marked our camp as a watering point. They are so tall, they used to stand next to the tank and put their long trunks into the tank to draw water!

That is how we came up with the idea of erecting a stone wall (maybe we should patent it!) around the tank and digging a ditch around the tank. Elephants are capable of a lot of thing but alas, they can’t perform any significant jumps.

The trench plus the little solar charged electric fence stopped them on their tracks.

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3 Comments

  1. Lisa
    Posted October 17, 2007 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    Amazing, although sad that they would need to resort to going to a man made tank to get water and actually making it one of their watering points. Lisa, California

  2. Michael C
    Posted October 23, 2007 at 6:19 pm | Permalink

    I like this story. It’s really funny. Do you feel a pride that these elephants would accept and appreciate your water source in this way?

  3. Michael C
    Posted October 23, 2007 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    I mean I’d feel somehow proud if a bunch of elephants came along and thought, “Aah this is a jolly fine watering hole. Let’s stop here.”
    I hope they didn’t get territorial and start barging you out of the way. I wouldn’t want an elephant jostling me…

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