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Pathological complexity and African elephant consciousness

Adaptive Behavior
Veit (2023) provides a framework for modelling and empirically investigating varieties of consciousness as a Darwinian phenomenon, based on abduction from life histories of animals. The alleged ‘hard problem’ is exposed as an artefact of ignoring mechanisms by which increasingly complex varieties of consciousness evolved under selection pressure over ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

Female African elephant rumbles differ between populations and sympatric social groups. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Pardo MA, Lolchuragi DS, Poole J, Granli P, Moss C, Douglas-Hamilton I, Wittemyer G.   +6 more
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“Not Lower Class, Lazy Class”: Food Loathing as Class Abjection and Distinction via Instagram Comments on Mama J. Rae's Lunchbox‐Packing Video

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines 4206 Instagram comments on a lunchbox‐packing video posted by Mama J. Rae, who self‐identifies as a “lower middle class wife.” Her excessive use of processed foods and sugary beverages provokes negative responses, many of which explicitly connect her lunchbox‐packing practices to class identity.
Hanwool Choe
wiley   +1 more source

Human-elephant conflicts and attitude of the local communities toward African elephant (<i>Loxodonta africana</i>) conservation in Kafta Sheraro National Park, Tigray region, Ethiopia. [PDF]

PeerJ
Temesgen F, Warkineh B.
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Legitimacy Mechanisms for the Diffusion of Reverse Innovation

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While establishing legitimacy is crucial for the diffusion of reverse innovation in developed markets, the mechanisms required to establish legitimacy remain underexplored. Drawing on product innovation and legitimacy studies, we use a mixed‐methods approach to provide a comprehensive understanding of legitimacy mechanisms for reverse ...
Fatima Irfan, Ward Ooms, Cosmina Lelia Voinea, Marjolein C. J. Caniëls   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bilateral Phacoemulsification in an African Elephant (Loxodonta africana). [PDF]

Case Rep Vet Med, 2019
Cerreta AJ, McMullen RJ, Scott HE, Ringenberg JD, Hempstead JE, DeVoe RS, Loomis MR, Minter LJ.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reevaluating introduced herbivores in conservation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Jonas Trepel, Robert Buitenwerf, Kristy Ferraro, Elizabeth le Roux, Erick Lundgren, Brian Maitner, Tanya Strydom, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Matthew R. Kerr   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation Management Strategies Shape Glucocorticoid Levels in African Elephant Populations More Than Parasite Load

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
Understanding the factors influencing physiological stress is essential for interpreting how wildlife responds to contrasting environmental and management conditions. Across 19 South African elephant populations, we found that smaller reserves, self‐drive tourism, and high elephant density under low vegetation productivity were associated with elevated
Laura Lacomme, Hervé Fritz, André Ganswindt, Chloé Guerbois, Benjamin Rey   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of vocal coordination in male African elephant group departures: evidence of active leadership and consensus. [PDF]

PeerJ
O'Connell-Rodwell CE, Berezin JL, Pignatelli A, Rodwell TC.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source