Exploring how elephants react when encountering lions and humans, including their aggression towards lions and their decision to flee from humans. The chapter also touches on a hypothesis about predators being attracted to camera sounds.
Ian Sample meets the conservation biologist Liana Zanette, whose recently published research demonstrates that humans are now the super predator, inciting more fear in wild animals than even lions. She explains the ramifications of this knowledge for conservation techniques and the protection of endangered animals. Help support our independent journalism at
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