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Chilli gun may not stop Nellie

Farmers in Cameroon doubt a United Nations suggestion to use pepper spray guns to stop stampeding elephants destroying crops. Frightened villagers often respond to attacks by killing the animals. The Food and Agriculture Organisation says plastic guns that fire ping-pong balls of chilli would be a non-lethal way of dealing with their attacks! But given elephants’ memories and how unpredictable they are, farmers said that they feared the idea was dangerous.

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