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Wild life

Africa is no longer the land of elephants

Remembering my father’s hunting stories, and Crown Prince the bull elephant

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

Laikipia

An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into the wire — or by simply sitting on the fence. I do hope they will play such tricks on us, now that high-voltage wires enclose most of the ranch, leaving only a few corridors for animals to pass through.

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