A. Caulk the inhabitants.
B. Turn off the electricity.
C. Place bananas outside the village to attract elephants and bring them back to the wild.
This is the routine of the thirty or so firefighters who have been tracking down a herd of elephants roaming southwest China for months using drones.
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The 14 pachyderms left their tropical reserve near the Burmese border almost a year and a half ago to move north through Yunnan province. Their peregrination enchants the Chinese and their media, but in their path the quadrupeds have ravaged countless hectares of corn and sugar cane and frightened the inhabitants of the villages they visited.
