Elephant Crop Raids Foiled by Chili Peppers, Africa Project Finds
Sep. 19, 2006

Conflicts between farmers and elephants have long been widespread in Africa, where pachyderms nightly destroy crops, raid grain houses, and sometimes kill people.

Now farmers are fighting back with an unlikely weapon: chili peppers.

Elephants don''t like capsaicin, the chemical in chilies that makes them hot.

By planting a few rows of the pungent fruit around valuable crops, framers create a buffer zone through which the elephants are reluctant to pass.

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Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060918-elephants-chili.html

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