Elephant Takes Out an Electric Fence

Despite all the campaigns people have heard about to stop this carnage, poachers still kill upwards of 30,000 elephants annually. Even while there are numerous initiatives in place to stop this slaughter, they obviously aren't always successful. Unfortunately, that can sometimes be attributed to how resourceful elephants can be.

Low-voltage electric fences are used to confine elephants to safe, supervised areas in many African protected areas. Elephants weren't informed of this, though, and they don't always want to stay in places where people want them to.

Therefore, occasionally the elephants will actually turn off these electric fences in order to cross over. Elephants have frequently been seen testing the current with their trunks before disabling the fence with logs or even by dismantling the fence poles.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Superfamily: Elephantoidea
Family: Elephantidae