{"id":10611,"date":"2011-07-15T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/bbc-nature-beehives-stop-elephant-crop-raids-in-kenya-africa-2\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:17:12","slug":"bbc-nature-beehives-stop-elephant-crop-raids-in-kenya-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/bbc-nature-beehives-stop-elephant-crop-raids-in-kenya-africa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Nature &#8211; Beehives stop elephant crop-raids in Kenya, Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>Previous research into natural deterrents showed that elephants avoided African honey bees.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, experts from the University of Oxford, UK, and the charity Save the Elephants set up a trial project to test whether beehives could prevent conflict on farmland boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of observations, the full results of the trial have now been published in the African Journal of Ecology. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finding a way to use live beehives was the next logical step in finding a socially and ecologically sensitive way of taking advantage of elephants&#8217; natural avoidance behaviour to bees to protect farmers&#8217; crops,&#8221; said Dr Lucy King, the University of Oxford biologist who led the study. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very exciting to see that our theoretical work has been converted into a practical application,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/14106484\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">      <a href=\"http:\/\/fraynelson.org\">Publicado via email<\/a> a partir de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraynelson.org\/bbc-nature-beehives-stop-elephant-crop-raids\">Palabras de camino<\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous research into natural deterrents showed that elephants avoided African honey bees. In 2009, experts from the University of Oxford, UK, and the charity Save the Elephants set up a trial project to test whether beehives could prevent conflict on farmland boundaries. After two years of observations, the full results of the trial have now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/bbc-nature-beehives-stop-elephant-crop-raids-in-kenya-africa-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BBC Nature &#8211; Beehives stop elephant crop-raids in Kenya, Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}