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Watch: Delightfully intelligent elephant outsmarts an electrified fence

These gentle giants have even been known to toss twigs at fences to test them for electricity.

Scroll Staff
Nov 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

Elephants will go where they want. Solar electric fencing maintained at 5kv was designed to deter them. It’s intelligence makes them cleaver to breach that barrier. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/vbgcGTZfij

— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) November 4, 2019
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