Shock in store for Humphrey the sea elephant
PA Auckland Hvmphrey, the XS trane sea elephant with a liking for dairy cows, could be in for a rude shock tomorrow. % A Hamilton firm, Gallagher Electronics, has volunteered to set up electric fences round Humphrey’s drain on his adopted Coromandel farm in an effort to encourage him to return to the sea. The enormous creature has been causing the Opoutere farm owners, Alan and Helen Bridson, a few problems because of his liking for the company of their dairy cows. He likes to lurch up at milking time to see the
cows go by. His bellowing makes them a little nervous and he has damaged a fence and water trough trying to get closer to them.
Gallagher Electronics will put electric fences round Humphrey’s drain allowing him only one escape route — along the drain and through a mangrove swamp back to the estuary.
The firm reports success in containing elephants and' other big ?;ame with its electric ences overseas.
Attempts by the Conservation Department to drug Humphrey _ and carry him back to the sea failed last Friday.
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