William Mwanduka (38) inspects bee hives housing colonies of African Honey Bees that have been integrated into a fence around an acre of his farm near Voi town in Taita Taventa County on October 30, ...

TAITA TAVETA, Kenya (AP) — For farmers in the Taita hills in southern Kenya, elephants are a menace: they raid crops and will occasionally injure or even kill people. Farmer Richard Shika, 68, has had ...

Lore has it that elephants are afraid of mice, but scientists have now discovered that elephants are truly afraid of bees - and that the pachyderms even sound an alarm when they encounter them. The ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Given the recent elephant hunting scandal, I ...