Yes, it’s true! Kenya has text messaging elephants. OK, so the elephants are not actually sending text messages with their enormous feet or trunk on a large cell phone, but the mobile phone card laden collars they wear do–when the elephant strays from it’s typical boundaries on the Reserve.

EXCERPT:

The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir’s screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

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.”

VIDEO: Elephants Send Text Messages

ARTICLE: Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers

October 14th, 2008 Subscribe to the RSS feed!