Tag Archives: elephants
AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS…
October 2007 The smell of a hunter! New study, to appear in Current Biology, shows that elephants apparently remember the smell and look of clothes worn by Maasai hunters, but are not perturbed by the clothes of Kamba agriculturalists who pose no threat. … Continue reading
BUZZ OFF ELEPHANTS!
October 2007 If you live on the edge of or in an African National Park, elephants can be a major garden pest. A group from Oxford has discovered that you can drive them away with the sound of bees… DO NOT TRY … Continue reading
Filed under Conservation, Insects, Mammals, Videos
ALTERNATIVES TO ELEPHANT CULLING
March 2007 How can local human populations best deal with elephants? This magazine article from Science looks at the alternatives (subscription needed).
Filed under Conservation, Ecology (political), Mammals
