Electric fences have been used to prevent human/elephant confrontation as development encroaches on traditional elephant habitats. But elephants are intelligent and soon discover that their tusks do not conduct electricity, allowing them to escape. Alexander Vipond of the Knysna Elephant Park in South Africa invented a simple device, nicknamed “tusk braces,” to discourage elephants from cutting fence wires. The tusk brace is basically a wire fit onto the length of the top of the tusk that turns the tusk into a conductor. Two elephants that have been fitted with tusk braces by Vipond and his colleagues both stopped breaking fences. For the full story see https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2017/06/breaking-a-fence-breaking-ha…