WAQ: How elephants sneeze on NatGeo
Fun fact that I didn't get to add to my WAQ (aka Weird Animal Question of the Week) on NatGeo.com this week....a reader asked how elephants sneeze. I talked in the story about how elephants and other animals sneeze but didn't get to add the fact that one type of elephant sneeze is especially beneficial to farmers. To keep elephants from raiding their crops some farmers plant chili peppers or burn chili oil - a chemical in chilies is unpleasant to elephants and can make them sneeze.
(Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
(Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
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