Techotic

Elephants can be a real problem, and the people of Kenya and India know this. Each year elephants are responsible for thousands of dollars worth of damage as well as jeopardizing and in rare cases taking peoples lives. Well some guys in Kenya’s Ol Pejeta conservancy have picked up the challenge. Several elephants have been tagged with collars that send text messages to the parks rangers should they venture near a village.

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.

The only thing that would be better is if these animals could actually make the text themselves and warn park rangers to get them out of danger should poachers find them.

Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers