Sri Lanka's electricity supply is said to be a primate playground. A single monkey has been blamed for a long outage to electricity supplies for the island's 22 million people. This lone primate seems to have come into contact with a grid transformer, unbalancing the complete system. Although hospitals and water purification systems were quickly reconnected, many folk went without air-conditioning and/or lighting for hours (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/total-chaos-monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-power-cut-in-sri-lanka). It's obviously problematic to operate such an animal-vulnerable electricity supply. Neither the monkeys nor the humans can operate safely under these conditions. Some resilience is needed. What would happen if an elephant got into a power station?
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