It does, that's the reason it's so popular, lost the battle on the latest project last night, I wanted them to use stands (50% of the participants are women so it makes inspections easier for them) Innicent and Ezai are on the ferry this morning on their way to Kigoma to shop for wire
You say that, but if they do, they quickly scarper, when I did the scoping exercise for WWF a few years ago, part of my brief was investigating using 'bee fences' to protect crops from elephants, accompanying me on the trip was Dr Maria Montero who spends most of her time studying elephant/human conflict, most of the groups we visited when asked about the largest challenges would say 'Elephant, crocodile, baboon' in that order and what did I see when I was out there? a handful of goats, numerous chickens and a bloody tortoise! as Maria and I were saying her goodbyes, Marias mobile went, 'Guess what?' she said, 'You know that village we passed through yesterday? just got a load of elephants turned up in their gardens!!'.
Elephants do not like bees (has anyone here ever been stung up the nose by a bee? I'll say no more), it was noticed years ago that elephants tended not to forage in an area where there were lots of bee colonies in the trees; a bee fence is made by arranging your apiary with the hives suspended by wires , hammock style, between two poles, the hives are placed about eight metres apart and connected to each other by a loosely attached trip wire, elephant comes along, touches the trip wire which shakes the two nearest hives, bees make a bit of a buzz, Elephant thinks 'oh dear, could be in the kaka here' turns tail and scarpers, sounds daft but it is very effective and what is even more amazing is, the elephants then transmit the knowledge that the particular garden is a bit of a bee hazard, no go area to other elephants in the area and they all start steering clear of that area.
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