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Examples
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"To protect these communities, we will erect a 2,8m electrified fence which is both lion - and elephant-proof."
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So Henry set about developing an elephant-proof fence and he managed to create one that really did work!
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For lottery winners, there is the vast fortified palace at Badnore with its double sets of battlemented walls, its elephant-proof gate and its dozens of individually decorated balconies, for £70,000 rental per year.
The Guardian World News Jason Burke 2011
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There is need to maintain well the elephant-proof trenches and electric fences that are used to keep elephants from straying into villages.
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Mabunda stressed the importance of securing additional funds for conservation, and indicated that the proceeds of the auction would be spent on employing additional game rangers, buying more vehicles, and erecting elephant-proof fences where needed.
IRIN 2008
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"They're back, Curt; that twelve-foot fence of heavy elephant-proof wire which we noticed in the forest day before yesterday isn't the fencing to
The Gay Rebellion Edmund Frederick 1899
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