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This short movie shows a typical playback experiment conducted in Samburu Game Reserve. Here the Rivers family rest peacefully under a tree until the hidden, camouflaged speaker to the right of the image starts to play disturbed bee sounds. The family’s reaction to bees has been seen time and again in other elephant families and this behavioural discovery has formed the core research in our attempt to understand how elephants would react to live bees used to protect farmers’ fields.


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Movie of Elephants Running from Bee Sounds

King, L.E., Douglas-Hamilton, I, Vollrath, F.  (2007) African elephants run from the sound of disturbed bees. Current Biology 17, R832-R833, October 9th.


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The Elephants and Bees Project features in Episode 2 of The Secret Life of Elephants. This unique BBC1 production explores both the elephants in Samburu Game Reserve and the researchers at Save the Elephants working to protect Africa’s elephant population.

BBC TV Series

  1. •Discovery Channel, Daily Planet (Canada)

  2. •Reuters TV: Recorded Interview

  3. •BBC News 24: Live Interview

  4. •BBC News – South Today

  5. •BBC News - Oxford

  6. •BBC 2 – Have I Got News for You

  7. •ITV News

  8. •Channel 4 News

  9. •CNN World News

  10. •Animal Planet: repeat of Secret Life of Elephants

  11. •Fuji TV (Japan)

  12. •Nieuwslicht, Science Program, (Holland)

Other TV appearances

The Elephants and Bees Project features in Josh Bernstein’s “Into the Unknown” TV series on Discovery Channel where he explores human-elephant conflict across Africa. Josh and his crew spent a day at Ex-Erok community and helped them build extra beehives for their protective fence.

Discovery Channel TV Series

  1. •BBC World Service News

  2. •BBC World Service: Recorded Interview

  3. •BBC Radio 1 Breakfast News

  4. •BBC Radio 2 News: Sarah Kennedy Show

  5. •BBC Radio Scotland: Recorded Interview

  6. •BBC Radio Solent: Live Interview

  7. •BBC Radio West Midlands: Live Interview

  8. •BBC Radio Oxford: Recorded Interview

  9. •BBC Radio 4 – News Quiz & The Today Program

  10. •Canada Broadcasting Corporation, Canada: Recorded Interview

  11. •Quirks and Quarks, CBC: Recorded Interview

  12. •National Public Radio’s ‘Day to Day Show’ with Alex Chadwick, Los Angeles: Recorded Interview

Project Featured on Radio

  1. •New Scientist Magazine

  2. •Science Now

  3. •The Daily Telegraph (Front page story 2007 & 2010)

  4. •The Weekly Telegraph

  5. •The Times Newspaper

  6. •The Guardian Newspaper

  7. •The Daily Mail Newspaper

  8. •The Metro Newspaper

  9. •Club UK Magazine

  10. •Cherwell Student Newspaper

Project Featured in Print

UK press

King, L.E., Lawrence, A, Douglas-Hamilton, I, Vollrath, F.  (2009) Beehive fence deters crop-raiding elephants. African Journal of Ecology, Vol 47, pages 131-137.


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  1. •The New York Times Newspaper (USA)

  2. •The Washington Post (USA)

  3. •Nairobi Star Newspaper (Front page story, Kenya)

  4. •Daily Metro Newspaper (Kenya)

  5. •Destination Travel Magazine (Kenya)

  6. •Africa Geographic Magazine (South Africa)

  7. •Jornal de Brasil (Brazil)

  8. •GEO Magazine (Germany)

  9. •Aamulehti Newspaper (Finland)

World press

King LE, Soltis J, Douglas-Hamilton I, Savage A, Vollrath F (2010) Bee Threat Elicits Alarm Call in African Elephants. PLoS ONE 5(4): e10346. doi:10.1371/

journal.pone.0010346


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Peer-Reviewed Publication

King LE, Bees help Protect Crops From Damage by Elephants in Kenya (2009). Bee Craft. September 2009. P9-11


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