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Identification of African Elephant Polyomavirus in wild elephants and the creation of a vector expressing its viral tumor antigens to transform elephant primary cells. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Wild elephant populations are declining rapidly due to rampant killing for ivory and body parts, range fragmentation, and human-elephant conflict.
Virginia R Pearson +9 more
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An adolescent female African elephant (Loxodonta africana) gave birth to an abnormal calf [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceMaternal nutrition and the uterine environment can influence placental development in mammals, leading to the birth of abnormal infants who often experience difficulties in independent standing.
Yujing Duan +4 more
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Diversity, 2023 African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) are a keystone species in African ecosystems. As a result of increasing anthropogenic pressure, elephant populations have declined significantly in the last two centuries. Research on a broad sample of these
Rachael B. Gross, Robert Heinsohn
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The influence of socioeconomic factors on the densities of high-value cross-border species, the African elephant [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Unprecedented poaching levels triggered by demand for ivory in Far East Asia are threatening the persistence of African elephant Loxodonta africana. Southern African countries make an important contribution to elephant conservation and could soon become ...
Sarah-Anne Jeanetta Selier +2 more
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Survey-based inference of continental African elephant decline [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaFiona Maisels +2 more
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African elephants and contraception [PDF]
Nature, 2001 Protected from hunting and provided with access to water-holes during droughts, elephant numbers can double in a decade, severely damaging natural vegetation and the many species dependent upon it. Culling is an effective but controversial control strategy, so Fayrer-Hosken et al.1 have assessed the efficacy of using immunocontraception through ...
S L, Pimm, R J, van Aarde
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The milk of the African elephant [PDF]
British Journal of Nutrition, 1970 1. Analyses have been made of milk collected from thirty wild African elephants immediately after they were shot.2. The milk contained an average of 5.1% protein, 9.3% fat and 3.6% lactose. The concentration of lactose decreased and the concentration of protein and fat increased with advancing lactation.
K G, McCullagh, E M, Widdowson
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Immunocontraception of African elephants [PDF]
Nature, 2000 A humane method to control elephant populations without behavioural side effects. Concerted efforts to nurture elephant populations have resulted in elephant overpopulation in several areas, which in turn has led to damaging levels of browsing. As an alternative to culling entire family groups in order to control this damage, we have developed an ...
R A, Fayrer-Hosken +4 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 While spontaneous yawning is common across all vertebrate classes, contagious yawning is less common and has been observed only in a few species of social animals.
Zoë T. Rossman +4 more
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African Elephant Specialist Group Meeting Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 26 to 31 January, 1998
Pachyderm, 1998 This section of the journal serves as the published record of the USFWS supported AfESG meeting held in Ouagadougou at the end of January 1998. Contents include: 5 full papers and the abstracts of 6 others which comprised the Current Issues Session; two
Elephant African
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