In “Network Africa A Complex System”, http://www.researchgate.net/publication/275335219 I recorded the importance of the honey bee as an example of natural communication.
Research has established the importance of the Elephant within the environment in which it lives. This includes the manner that it contributes to the development of vegetation and forest life in general. http://www.savetheelephants.org/about-elephants-2-3/importance-of-elephants/
The myth about the Elephant and its drunken behaviour when consuming the Marula tree fruit has been dispelled scientifically. http://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-3-8-elephant-myth-22760.html
Research on the relevance of the Marula tree and the importance of indigenous tree to Southern African communities with specific reference to its domestication and commercial is researched by Neo C Mokgolodi et alhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/227268864
The use of the bee to protect crop raiding by elephants has been researched by the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/impact/elephants_and_bees
and by recent research work at the University of the Witwatersrand to prevent the destruction of the Marula by elephants https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2015-09-27-honeybees-could-be-key-to-stopping-destructive-elephants/
We as humans are now finding ways to interfere with nature and the delicate balance that exists in Africa where indiscriminate slaughtering of our animal life is taking place to support commercial interests.
There is an urgent need to find a well-balanced relationship that will assure our resources will last for generations to come. http://www.awf.org/land-protection/threats
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Article The importance of an indigenous tree to southern African com...
We have experienced one of the great scenes in Africa when visiting the Kruger Park. A male elephant gently wrapped its trunk around a marula tree sending gradually increasing vibrations through the tree dislodging the fruit to the ground. The other elephants then lifted the fruit into their mouths with their trunks. Once satisfied, the group walking away. No trees were damaged.
So let the African ecosystem find its own balance to survive.
Extract from https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2013/04/25/walking-with-elephants/
The elephants spend each dawn to dusk out in the bush wandering, foraging, mud bathing and doing the things elephants like to do. Finding food is high on the priority list of Jabu, Thembi and Morula, and among their favorite delicacies are wild fruits such as palm nuts, morula fruit, jacket berries and sarma melons. During palm nut season Jabu goes from one palm tree to the next, shaking down nuts while Thembi and Morula eagerly help him gather and gobble them up.
Marula, Scelerocarya birrea, subspecies caffera, is one of Africa' botanical treasures. krugerpark.co.za
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