I am glad that I live in an age when elephants can send text messages.
In Kenya bull elephants have been equipped with mobile phone SIM cards which automatically send SMS text messages to rangers if the elephants venture too close to villages and farms. This is because the elephants can cause catastrophic economic loss through crop devastation. Instead of culling the endangered animals after they have damaged the crops the rangers can now drive them away from the villages and crops before any harm is done.
"In ye olde black and white times elephants had to find a phone box to alert the villagers . "
It would be nice if the technology could be modified to allow the elephants to send personal messages to their spouses. For instance,
"Honey can you pick up an acacia tree on your way home. I don't feel like cooking."
or
"Darling I heard there are a few mice on the A47 - you might want to take a different track home."
"Honey can you pick up an acacia tree on your way home. I don't feel like cooking."
or
"Darling I heard there are a few mice on the A47 - you might want to take a different track home."
Just a thought.
If they could use google streetview on their phones then the elephants wouldn't need to go near the villiages in the first place...
ReplyDeleteThey could throw a spell checker in there too... ^_^
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