Re: [CH] Hot Idea Repels Crop Muching, Crunching Elephants
Charles P Demas (cpd@world.std.com)
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Rob Lusk wrote:
> I found this browsing the alt.food.mexican-cooking list today.
> You have to log in to get the article but its interesting.
>
> >From the NY Times
> "Hot Idea Repels Crop Muching, Crunching Elephants
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/062000sci-animal-elephant.ht
> ml
>
> Ingredients:
> 1 pound hot chilies, crushed
> 2 pounds fresh elephant dung.
Yeah, but in the article it says they make bricks out of them, and then
burn the bricks so that the "smoke" drifts over the fields toward the
elephants. Dried elephant dung is commonly used as fuel, much the same
way that buffalo chips were used as fuel by American indians and early
settlers.
The elephant's trunk is like our nose, but more sensitive, and as anyone
that's burnt hot peppers knows, this can cause the house to be evacuated.
Chuck Demas
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