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Yes, you are reading that headline correctly…elephants are sending text messages to rangers, and get this, to tell on themselves when they raid villages. Can you imagine getting a message from an elephant that says “OMG, we R so efFn DIS viLaG3 ^?” Thanks to Lethal for the link to this one.



The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers’ crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta conservancy.



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