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This undated footage shows forest elephant reacts to an acoustic elephant deterrent called a Buzz Box in a remote Liberian forest. Buzz Boxes are effective in keeping both forest and savannah elephants safely outside of farms and could be a valuable mitigation tool in human-elephant conflict (HEC) hotspots across Africa. Footage of the device in action shows a huge bull elephant eating contentedly in the undergrowth of Liberia, West Africa. But the moment it triggers the device by getting too close to farmland it hears the sound of angrily buzzing bees. The elephant is seen lifting its head up, looking around and then turning tail and walking rapidly away. BuzzBox is now being extended around farms in an attempt to stop elephants from raiding farmers' crops. Hungry elephants are capable of eating a year's work for a farmer and will attack and maybe even kill anybody that tries to get in the way. The project came about after a discovery in 2002 when Maasai beekeepers in Kenya revealed that trees with beehives were never disturbed by elephants. And tuskers are right to be wary of bees. Even though they have thick hides adult elephants would be vulnerable to agonising attacks in their sensitive trunks and eyes. Some experts reckon that a large swarm of aggressive African honey bees could even kill a young calf with a less thick hide.