Da Kine BuzzBox: Saving 🐘 Elephants Wit Da Sound A Bees, No Stings! 🐝
Get choke places Africa and Asia wea elephants stay show up, go inside da farmers’ fields, stomp and grind da crops. Sometimes da farmers fight back, and da elephants mahke.😟
Dat kine stuff stay look like one shua ting wen one forest elephant bull come out da thick jungle by Gbarnjala village, northwestern Liberia. But dis time, had one diffren kine result. Da big elephant wen hear one mean buzzing sound. Da buggah wen freeze, den turn um around and hele out fasta den! 🏃♂️🐘
Da bull wen hear da sound of bees dat stay all nuts – and like da elephants all ova da world, da buggah wen learn fo’ dodge da kine bug sound no matta wat. But dis time, neva had no bees fo’ realz. Da elephant wen trip one BuzzBox, one audio kine technology dat try fo’ keep da elephants and da people from clashing.🎶📦
Da video of dis whole ting stay da first proof dat da BuzzBoxes stay work fo’ keep away da kine critally endangered forest elephants, said Tina Vogt, technical director of Elephant Research and Conservation, one German nonprofit group testing da devices in Liberia. 🎥🌍
“Da farmers stay telling us, ‘Ho, da ting stay work,’ but now dis video stay da real proof,” Dr. Vogt said. 🌾👩🌾
Da kine fight between humans and elephants stay one big problem all ova Africa. As da numba of people stay grow, they stay move into places wea was wild befo’, including game reserves and national parks. “Da elephants stay get mo’ and mo’ squished into smalla areas,” said Lucy King, head of da human-elephant coexistence program at Save the Elephants, helping put da BuzzBox out dea.🌳🚧
Da elephants can eat one whole year’s harvest in one night, and sometimes even mahke da people dey run into. Dat make da people scared, mad, and no like da animals, taking away da support fo’ saving da elephants and making da people get back at dem. 😡🐘
“Da kine human-elephant beef stay one big part of da reason why local people get pulled into da poaching gangs,” said Francesca Mahoney, founder and director of Wild Survivors, one nonprofit from England dat wen make da BuzzBox.🇬🇧💡
Bees stay get more popular fo’ try stop da kine beef. 🐝🕊️
Da San rock art from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, stay show ancient people wen know dat elephants scared of bees, Dr. King said. Dat kine knowledge wen become Western scientific stuff in 2002 wen Maasai honey hunters in Kenya wen tell da researchers dat elephants no mess up da trees wit beehives.🍯🌳
Dr. King stay studying da elephants’ fear of bees since 2006 and wen use wat she wen learn fo’ make special kine wire fences wit beehives hanging like pendulums. Wen da elephants shake da fence, da hives swing and da bees go all nuts. One study Dr. King wen do in 2017 wen show dat da beehive fences stay work 80 percent of da time fo’ keep da elephants off da farms. “Find one natural kine ting fo scare da elephants da most natural way but no freak ’em out or make ’em feel pain, dat stay really useful fo’ managing ’em,” she said. 🐘🌿
But sometimes, get choke bees stay no da bestest kine ting. “You no like put live bees in places like school grounds or around water tanks in da middle of one community,” Dr. King said. 🏫🚰
Da kine BuzzBox stay one new technology wea no need da stings but still make da sound of da bees dat scare da elephants away. Dis stay one winna way fo’ keep da people and da elephants safe and help fo’ save da endangered forest elephants. 🐝🔊🐘
Da proof stay dat dis kine technology can work and make life mo’ betta fo’ da people and da elephants. Everybody stay looking forward fo’ see how da BuzzBoxes goin’ be used in da future fo’ save mo’ lives and make one betta world fo’ all da kine living creatures. 🌍❤️🐘
NOW IN ENGLISH
Elephants Scared Off by Buzz, No Stings Needed 🐘🐝
In many parts of Africa and Asia, it’s a common and dreaded scenario: an elephant wanders into farmers’ fields, trampling and eating crops 🌾. Sometimes, farmers fight back, and elephants are killed.
But recently, in Gbarnjala village in northwestern Liberia, things went differently. A forest elephant bull began munching on crops but suddenly froze mid-chew, hearing an angry buzzing sound 🎶. It quickly retreated, avoiding potential harm to both the elephant and the crops.
The bull had heard the sound of a disturbed hive of bees—a sound elephants worldwide avoid at all costs 🚫. However, in this case, no bees were actually present. The elephant had triggered a BuzzBox, an audio technology designed to keep elephants and people apart 🎵🐘.
Footage of the incident provided the first proof of concept that the BuzzBoxes are an effective deterrent for critically endangered forest elephants, according to Tina Vogt, technical director of Elephant Research and Conservation, a German nonprofit group testing the devices in Liberia 🇱🇷🔬.
Human-elephant conflict is a pressing issue across Africa 🌍. With growing human populations, people encroach on formerly wild areas, including some game reserves and national parks, leading to tensions. Elephants can decimate an entire year’s harvest overnight and occasionally kill people they encounter 🌾💔. This breeds fear, anger, and intolerance for the animals, eroding community support for their conservation and sometimes leading to retaliation.
Bees are an increasingly popular means of trying to quell this conflict 🐝. Studies have shown that beehive fences have an 80% success rate in keeping elephants off farms. However, in some cases, aggressive African honey bees are not ideal, especially in places like school grounds or around community water tanks 🏫🚰.
That’s where the BuzzBox comes in. This new technology doesn’t require the presence of bees, but still mimics the sound of them, scaring elephants away. This innovative solution keeps both people and elephants safe and helps protect endangered forest elephants 🌳🐘.
The proof that this technology works brings hope for a better future, where people and elephants can coexist without harm 💚. As the use of BuzzBoxes expands, it may save more lives and create a better world for all living creatures 🌎❤️🐘.
