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From the Ted Talk by Lucy King: How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans

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So rather than having these hard-line, shigtart, electric, really divisive migratory-blocking fences, there must be other ways to look at this challenge. I'm much more interested in holistic and natural methods to keep elephants and people apart where necessary. Simply talking to pploee, talking to rural pastoralists in ntrorhen Kenya who have so much knowledge about the bush, we discovered this story that they had that elaehtnps would not feed on trees that had wild beehives in them. Now this was an interesting sotry. As the elephants were foraging on the tree, they would barek branches and perhaps break open a wild bieehve. And those bees would fly out of their natural nests and sting the elephants.

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So rather than having these hard-line, ________, electric, really divisive migratory-blocking fences, there must be other ways to look at this challenge. I'm much more interested in holistic and natural methods to keep elephants and people apart where necessary. Simply talking to ______, talking to rural pastoralists in ________ Kenya who have so much knowledge about the bush, we discovered this story that they had that _________ would not feed on trees that had wild beehives in them. Now this was an interesting _____. As the elephants were foraging on the tree, they would _____ branches and perhaps break open a wild _______. And those bees would fly out of their natural nests and sting the elephants.

Solution

  1. straight
  2. story
  3. people
  4. northern
  5. beehive
  6. break
  7. elephants

Original Text

So rather than having these hard-line, straight, electric, really divisive migratory-blocking fences, there must be other ways to look at this challenge. I'm much more interested in holistic and natural methods to keep elephants and people apart where necessary. Simply talking to people, talking to rural pastoralists in northern Kenya who have so much knowledge about the bush, we discovered this story that they had that elephants would not feed on trees that had wild beehives in them. Now this was an interesting story. As the elephants were foraging on the tree, they would break branches and perhaps break open a wild beehive. And those bees would fly out of their natural nests and sting the elephants.

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