retrieved cellphone

On 25th of January this year Liefie our dominant female had baby's. On the same day i found a fresh 2m long cobra skin on the same burrow system about 3m away from the hole where she had the baby's. In the first 3 weeks they moved the pups 2 times and after one of these occasions i was bending over one of these holes to listen for survivors when my phone fell out of my pocket and slid down the burrow. Now as you know these burrows can be up to two and a half meter deep, so with meerkats, baby's and cobras down there i was not putting my head or hands down that hole to look for phones. The outcome was a new phone and sim card. but after having the same simcard for 6 or7 years a lifetime of friends and family numbers and info was on that phone. so after making sure they were not moving back into the same burrow for at least 4 months i eventually took the plunge and with the help of a long, thin spade, a sharp torch and my head and shoulders down a hole like an aardvark without a tale, i eventually retrieved my phone. After some cleaning and blowing and of course a good charge the phone was as good as new. Disappointment tho they did not take one good picture while they had the phone and luckily they did not make any long distance calls to the Kalahari.