Want to stop an Elephant from destroying your farm? Use chili peppers!

Elephants often pose a problem for African farmers; at night, they destroy crops, raid grain houses and even kill people some time. Farmers have found a way to fight back: chili peppers. Elephants hate the chemical that makes chili peppers hot, called capsaicin.

Farmers have begun planting chili peppers around valuable crops. This creates a zone where elephants don’t really wanna pass through. The person who started this trend is also the same person who started using pepper spray against bears. He also came up with many other methods, so check them out at the source!