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This led me to invent a novel design for a beehive fence, which we are now building around small, one-to-two-acre farms on the most vulnerable frontline areas of Africa where humans and elephants are competing for space.
We're basically tricking the elephants into thinking there are more beehives than there really are.
The bees swarm out of the hive, and they really scare the elephants away.
These beehive fences we're studying using things like camera traps to help us understand how elephants are responding to them at night time, which is when most of the crop raiding occurs.
And we found in our study farms that we're keeping up to 80 percent of elephants outside of the boundaries of these farms.
It is a fun name, but it also attracts attention to our project and helps people understand what we're trying to do to save elephants.
We're working now with so many women in over 60 human-elephant conflict sites in 19 countries in Africa and Asia to build these beehive fences, working very, very closely with so many farmers but particularly now with women farmers, helping them to live better in harmony with elephants.
So we're looking at planting crops that elephants don't particularly want to eat, like chillies, ginger, Moringa, sunflowers.
We're working with these amazing women now who live daily with the challenges of elephants to use this plant to weave into baskets to provide an alternative income for them.
We've just started construction only three weeks ago on a women's enterprise center where we're going to be working with these women not only as expert beekeepers but as amazing basket weavers; they're going to be processing chili oils, sunflower oils, making lip balms and honey, and we're somewhere on our way to helping these participating farmers live with better eco-generating projects that live and work better with living with elephants.
With more innovation, and perhaps with some more empathy towards each other, I do believe we can move from a state of conflict with elephants to true coexistence.
And over the last decade, I traveled to over 40 countries to see jaguars and bears and elephants and tigers and rhinos.
You would be allowed to bring objects or performers into the performing chamber: "Aida," their elephants, you can bring the elephants in.
Some of these paintings, when you look at them very close, odd things appear that really look like horses or birds or crocodiles, elephants.
Asian elephants are the closest relative to the woolly mammoth, and they're about the same size, genetically very close.
The Asian elephants are closer to woolly mammoths than they are to African elephants, but they're close enough to African elephants that they have successfully hybridized.
And Asian elephants, they don't like snow, right?"
The elephants have carved the shallow lake water up into a network of little pathways, and they're spaced just enough apart that only elephants, with their long trunks, can tap into the most succulent grasses.
For that, bluefin have been given a status equivalent to tigers, to lions, to certain African elephants and to pandas.
But even if we discard the huge plot holes (why did elephants and lions come to aid Evan when the flood only concerned that particular area of Washington) the film is simply ...not funny.
Interesting tale of giant mammoth elephants running amok in modern India.
I only wish the Mammoths had been in more of the picture, but when you see them, they are also well done (remember, SFX was done in those days without benefit of computers, some poor devil had to actually put all that hair & fake tusks on real elephants!)...the same effect was used on the elephants in "Quest for Fire".
Especially when they do ridiculous things like ride on the backs of elephants and clap their hands when Tarzan and Jane finally get it on!
From the stupid "quaint African natives" travelogue footage with our badly-superimposed principals acting as narrators, to the horrible fake ears which transform docile Indian elephants into African elephants, to the utter lack of any logic at all, to Maureen O'Sullivan's incessant whining of "Tarzan!
The elephants are determined to reclaim their traditional path to water that was blocked when the mansion was built across their right-of-way.
And maybe deliver a message, like "Don't kill elephants!".
Elephants Dream was supposed to be the flagship project of the open source community.
ELEPHANT WALK was a thoroughly dull film and I really was quite happy when finally a herd of elephants stormed through the mansion and ended this film.
After all, no elephants are shown being killed during the movie; it is not even implied that any are hurt.
James Whitmore was brave to take on the task of directing such a difficult episode, invisible elephants and gorilla suits sounds like a recipe for disaster, but he pulls it off with style, the teaser being an absolute gem.
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