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  • From: Jeff Bollinger <jeff01 AT email.unc.edu>
  • To: "Orange County, NC Beekeepers" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] Elephants Run from Bees
  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:41:48 -0400


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.
>
> 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.




  • [ocba] Elephants Run from Bees, Jeff Bollinger, 10/08/2007

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