African elephants run from the sound of disturbed bees

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  King, Lucy E ^a,b   Douglas Hamilton, Iain ^b   Vollrath, Fritz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAVE THE ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEE; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; KENYA; LETTER; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEES; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; RUNNING; SOUND;

APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA; APOIDEA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 34848848784     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.038     Document Type: Letter

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