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Beehive fence deters crop-raiding elephants
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Previous work has shown that African elephants Loxodonta africana will avoid African honeybees Apis mellifera scutellata. Here we present results from a pilot study conducted to evaluate the concept of using beehives to mitigate elephant crop depredation. In Laikipia, Kenya, we deployed a 90-m fence-line of nine inter-connected hives, all empty, on two exposed sides of a square two-acre farm that was experiencing high levels of elephant crop depredation. Compared with a nearby control farm of...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- African Journal of Ecology Journal website
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 131-137
- Publication date:
- 2009-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-2028
- ISSN:
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0141-6707
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3277
- Deposit date:
- 2010-01-27
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- Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Rights statement:
- © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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