Elephants and Bees Research
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
The Elephants and Bees Research Project is one of Save the Elephants’ newest innovative programs designed to explore the natural world for solutions to human-elephant conflict. Led by DPhil researcher Lucy King from the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, the project uses in-depth knowledge and observation of elephant behaviour to reduce damage from crop-raiding elephants using African honeybees.
2010 NEWS: We have published a new paper showing that elephants emit an alarm call in response to bees. You can download the paper here.
Can bees really control elephants?
Save the Elephants was founded in 1993 by Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, OBE, who made a pioneering study of elephant behaviour in the late '60s in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania, and has worked on elephant status Africa-wide since. Explorers, conservationists and elephant scientists serve as fellow trustees or advisors to the board.
Lucy King
