08w19:4 Elephants

Posted May 7th, 2008 by timothy. 0 Comments

 
Wash Your Clothes: Elephants Can Smell You a Mile Away | Henry Fountain
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/nytimes/elephants/
“Lucy A. Bates and Richard W. Byrne of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and colleagues have demonstrated that using odor and visual cues elephants are able to classify subgroups within a predator species. The species in question? Homo sapiens. In a report in Current Biology, the researchers describe their experiments in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Elephants in the region encounter different ethnic groups, including the Maasai, whose young men spear elephants, and the Kamba, agricultural villagers who pose no threat at all.”