Installation Guides: Hot Grass & Hot Vines
See this page for Hot Grass and Hot Vine installation photos, videos, and downloadable PDF's.
A large tree before Hot Vines: This tree has been recently relocated to this habitat and is fragile, so the animal staff are using our Hot Vines to train the gorillas in the exhibit to avoid this particular tree.
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When attaching a vine to a tree, make sure the curled points are sticking out away from the tree and other plants/objects. These copper curls are the electrified "hot" points which deliver the training signal. One way to do this is to "gnarl" the vine before attaching it to the tree-- see Hot Vine installation video below.
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When installing Hot Vines, we recommend you begin with at least one vertical "trunk" vine, then create "branches". To create a branch, first zip-tie two vines together (as shown in this photo) then carefully twist together the base of the two curly "hot" points.
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In this photo, you can see how wire from the electric fence charger is crimped to the first Hot Grass clump in the chain. The exact same connection method is done at the base of each tree protected with our Hot Vines (see above photo of the vine attachment point).
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Tall Hot Grass Installation Video |
Hot Vine Installation Video |
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