Elephants are extremely scared of bees!

Elephants are extremely scared of bees!

Elephants are the largest beasts alive on land today. Yet these goliaths are afraid of bees, researchers have discovered. The giants flee when they hear the buzz of a bee swarm.

An angry swarm can sting elephants around their eyes and inside their trunks and pierce the skin of young calves. Now, a new study shows that the pachyderms utter a distinctive rumble in response to the sound of bees, the first time an alarm call has been identified in elephants.

A study suggests that this alarm call isn’t just a generalized vocalization but means specifically, “Bees!”

This is an awesome discovery! Comes to show that there are might be many other different ways of how elephants communicate with each other.

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