by Adam Cruise | Oct 31, 2024 | Studies
By University of Oxford A ground-breaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 13, 2024 | Studies
By Nicola Davis, The Guardian While humans are split between right-handers and left-handers, elephants have a preference for which side of their trunk they use. Now scientists have discovered it is possible to determine an elephant’s “trunkedness” by looking at its...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 8, 2024 | Studies
By Lauren Quinn, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Phys.org Elephant conservation is a major priority in southern Africa, but habitat loss and urbanization mean the far-ranging pachyderms are...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 24, 2024 | Studies
By Frank Krell, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Phys.org How many dung beetles are there in East Africa? That question inspired a research project more than 20 years ago when Frank Krell was a research entomologist with the Natural History Museum London....
by Adam Cruise | Apr 25, 2024 | Studies
By University of Bristol, Phys.org A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the illegal ivory trade. A laser-based approach developed by scientists at the Universities of Bristol...
