Elephants scared of bees

Did you know elephants are more afraid of bees than of mice?

On Tuesday October 9th 2007, The Metro, a London free paper, featured a report that Oxford University zoologists had discovered that an elephant is much more likely to panic and stampede when frightened by a humble bee, rather than if the elephant is frightened by the archetypal terroriser of elephants, the mouse.

The study, conducted in the Samburu National Reserve, Northern Kenya, may help to save lives where elephants live (and work) alongside humans. Possible applications of the research could be a perimeter alarm that sounds a bee-buzzing noise when elephants approach - this would be an elephant deterrent.

So, were elephants that go on a rampage, seemingly for no reason, frightened by a bee?

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