Showcase | Why I love Current Biology | Anniversary Interviews
Like us on Facebook | eToC Signup  To celebrate Current
Biology's 21st anniversary, we will be bringing you a series of
interviews with authors of some of the papers featured on our
celebration page.  Fritz Vollrath  African elephants pose a
nuisance to local farmers when they pilfer crops. In 2007, Fritz
Vollrath and colleagues showed that playing the sound of bees to
elephants caused them to run away in terror. In this interview,
Vollrath reminisces about the 2007 study and discusses how this
fear of bees is being used to keep humans and elephants apart to
the benefit of both parties.  Brian Hare  Dogs have an uncanny
ability to understand human gestures and offer an opportunity to
understand the evolution of social cognition. In 2005, Brian
Hare and colleagues reported that foxes artificially selected to
be unafraid of man evolved the dog-like ability to understand
cues from humans. Listen to Brian describe the breeding of these
foxes, which he