Elephants do not want to have anything to do with people

It seems that elephants understand that the only predators, which they have to worry about - people. Despite the absence of any boundaries between the territory of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and lands outside the reserve, elephants prefer to be on the protected side of the law.

The researchers examined the state of feces of animals to enhance their knowledge about how elephants live outside the park. Analysis of both groups revealed that elephants living outside the territory where they are at greater risk of attack by man was more compressed than that of the elephants in the park. Their manure contained more glyukortekoidov - hormones produced by the body during stress.

In the park inhabited by more elephants than outside it, although no specific boundaries No elephants are free to come out. Moreover, outside the park, not one lone male - in hazardous areas the elephants are more willing to form a family.

All this means that the elephants prefer to stay away from people, and if possible to avoid interacting with them. Perhaps, elephants realize they are safe or not - most likely, they are able to remember his own negative experience.

Unfortunately, the elephants are absolutely right - they really want to avoid people, often leading them to hunt. In Africa, these animals have very little, and it is feared that they will completely disappear in the next six years.

via factroom.ru