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Listen Again: Finding Another Way

TED Radio Hour

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Elephants and Beehive Fences in Africa

Elephants communicate in infrasonic to warn each other of the threat of bees. This led me to invent a novel design for a beehive fence, which we are now building around small farms on the most vulnerable front line areas of africa where humans and elephants are competing for space. We use 12 beehives and 12 dummy hives to protect one acre of farm land, basically tricking the elephants into thinking there are more beehives than there really are. It literally halves the cost of the fence.

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