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| Africa Subsaharan |
| How to keep elephants out of your yard |
| 2011-07-18 |
| For your reading pleasure. Excerpt here Innovative beehive fences have helped a community in Kenya to successfully protect crops from elephants, according to research. Scientists found the hives to be a very effective barrier; elephants turned away from them in 97% of their attempted raids. Conservationists suggest that elephants' natural fear of bees could settle ongoing conflicts. The hives' honey also produced additional profits for farmers. |
| Posted by:mom |
| #2 Interesting and innovative. Maybe they could use Habitrails full of mice as gates to avoid stings whilst coming and going. |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-07-18 18:00 |
| #1 Very cool, mom. I take it these are not the vicious Africanized honey bees that caused such horror stories in the American southwest? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-18 18:00 |