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<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335008257375_197" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma">South Africa's power utility has moved cables in a wildlife sanctuary after several giraffes were electrocuted when they walked into the low-hanging wires, a conservation official said Friday.</font></p>
<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335008257375_206" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma">At least four giraffes have died since June 2011 in Marloth Park holiday town nestled against the legendary Kruger Park after power utility Eskom installed electricity poles that were too short.</font></p>
<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335008257375_203" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma">The low-hanging wires "increased the likelihood of possible negative interactions" between the giraffes and the wires, said Constant Hoogstad for the conservation NGO Endangered Wildlife in a statement Friday.</font></p>
<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335008257375_311" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma">The power utility moved the offending wires in a single day in March after conservationists raised an uproar, Hoogstad said.</font></p>
<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335008257375_313" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma">"They installed new transformers where necessary and lifted those that were too low and a threat to wandering giraffes," said Hoogstad.</font></p>
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