People in Mayilattumpara, a village in southwest India, could not sleep at night. Because of habitat loss, wild elephants would enter their village to look for food, destroying crops and farmland. The villagers tried to keep the wild elephants out with electric fences, deep holes and plants believed to keep the animals away. They even tried beating drums. Nothing worked! The repeated destruction of crops led some villagers to stop farming. But the situation turned around last year. That is because residents have finally found what keeps the elephants away: Honey bees. Elephants, it turns out, are afraid of loudly buzzing bees and their stings. A wire fence holding beehives now stretches along the border of the village.
Title: Bees Protect Crops from Wild Elephants in India
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2340/bees_protect.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Bees Protect Crops from Wild Elephants in India' data-article-id='2856'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8375'>People in Mayilattumpara, a village in southwest India, could not sleep at night.</span> <span data-start-time='8375' data-end-time='19146'>Because of habitat loss, wild elephants would enter their village to look for food, destroying crops and farmland.</span> <span data-start-time='19146' data-end-time='31229'>The villagers tried to keep the wild elephants out with electric fences, deep holes and plants believed to keep the animals away.</span> <span data-start-time='31229' data-end-time='35208'>They even tried beating drums.</span> <span data-start-time='35208' data-end-time='37625'>Nothing worked!</span> <span data-start-time='37625' data-end-time='44646'>The repeated destruction of crops led some villagers to stop farming.</span> <span data-start-time='44646' data-end-time='49479'>But the situation turned around last year.</span> <span data-start-time='49479' data-end-time='56917'>That is because residents have finally found what keeps the elephants away: </span> <span data-start-time='56917' data-end-time='59500'>Honey bees.</span> <span data-start-time='59500' data-end-time='68167'>Elephants, it turns out, are afraid of loudly buzzing bees and their stings.</span> <span data-start-time='68167' data-end-time='76521'>A wire fence holding beehives now stretches along the border of the 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