Did you know elephants are scared of bees? That’s good news for farmers. In Tanzania, a conservation group is using drones that mimic the buzzing of bees to guide elephants away from farmers’ crops and back into the wild. The drones are one way to…
Scientists studied DNA to see if giraffes and elephants can cross big mountains and found that giraffes don’t, and elephants only rarely do.
Forest elephants eat the fruits of the ebony tree and help spread their seeds through forests. If elephants vanish, ebony trees — used to make instruments — can vanish too.
Asian elephants aren’t just the largest land mammals in Asia — they’re also forest gardeners!