Elephants in sentence

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But the centerpiece species of Zakouma are the elephants.

It was with the elephants that this story pivoted.

Instead of just knowledge of this park, he created an understanding and an empathy for the elephants, the rangers and the many issues surrounding human-wildlife conflicts.

I don't know if you've read or heard about the sub-sonic sounds from elephants, you know what I mean, like, "Br-r-r!"

So the scientists watching the elephants kept close observation on Eleanor's body for seven days.

And during those seven days, a parade of elephants came from five different families.

We can look at elephants and say, yes, they grieve, and we can renew our efforts against international trophy hunting and against poaching.

The attacking infantry advances steadily, their elephants already having broken the defensive line.

I emitted, in the atmosphere, nine tons of CO2; that is the weight of two elephants.

Ever since I can remember, African elephants have filled me with a sense of complete awe.

Sure, they were keeping elephants out of the communities, but they also kept communities out of their wild spaces.

But now, in my role as head of the human-elephant coexistence program for Save the Elephants, we're seeing so much change happening so fast that it's urged a change in some of our research programs.

It was only as recently as the 1970s that we used to have 1.2 million elephants roaming across Africa.

Too often, these migrating elephants end up stuck inside communities, looking for food and water but ending up breaking open water tanks, breaking pipes and, of course, breaking into food stores for food.

These elephants also trample and eat crops, and this is traditionally eroding away that tolerance that people used to have for elephants.

And I'm telling you, these elephants don't think much of it either, particularly if they're blocking a really special water hole where they need water, or if there's a very attractive female on the other side.

And as soon as there's a gap in the fence, they go back, talk to their mates and suddenly they're all through, and now you have 12 elephants on the community side of the fence.

Well, these elephants don't think much of those either.

I'm much more interested in holistic and natural methods to keep elephants and people apart where necessary.

Simply talking to people, talking to rural pastoralists in northern Kenya who have so much knowledge about the bush, we discovered this story that they had that elephants would not feed on trees that had wild beehives in them.

As the elephants were foraging on the tree, they would break branches and perhaps break open a wild beehive.

And those bees would fly out of their natural nests and sting the elephants.

Now if the elephants got stung, perhaps they would remember that this tree was dangerous and they wouldn't come back to that same site.

So for my PhD, I had this unusual challenge of trying to work out how African elephants and African bees would interact, when the theory was that they wouldn't interact at all.

Well, what I did was I took the sound of disturbed African honey bees, and I played it back to elephants resting under trees through a wireless speaker system, so I could understand how they would react as if there were wild bees in the area.

Here we are, playing the bee sounds back to this amazing group of elephants.

And one elephant triggers a retreat, and soon the whole family of elephants are running after her across the savannah in a cloud of dust.

(Sound of bees buzzing) (Sound of bees ends) Now I've done this experiment many, many times, and the elephants almost always flee.

And we placed infrasonic microphones around the elephants as we did these experiments.

So these behavioral discoveries really helped us understand how elephants would react should they hear or see bee sounds.

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