[ocba] Elephants Run from Bees
Jeff Bollinger
jeff01 at email.unc.edu
Mon Oct 8 14:41:48 EDT 2007
Pretty interesting article describing how elephants in Africa will
naturally run away from bees and how they are using beehives to prevent
elephants from trampling or eating crops:
http://www.livescience.com/animals/071008-elephant-bees.html
> A key aspect of these new findings is "that whole herds of elephants moved away together from the sound," King explained. "If only one or two moved away, the use of bees as a deterrent would only be partially useful." The scientists detailed their findings in the October 9 issue of the journal Current Biology.
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> The hope now is to use beehives to deter elephant herds from human farmland "and therefore contribute to a safer future for both elephants and the people who have to live with them," King said.
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