Neat News 2097 (added 2021-09-27)

Bees to protect farms from elephants

Bees can sting elephants and scare them off when they swarm. In order to protect elephants, in southern Kenya an approach is taken to shield farmland from foraging elephants by a so-called bee fence. When the elephants set off the bees they swarm and the elephants avoid the farmland behind the fence.

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News seen at: Scientific American - Environment