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Survey-based inference of continental African elephant decline [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Fiona Maisels   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

African elephants and contraception [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 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
openaire   +4 more sources

Exploring Routes to Coexistence: Developing and Testing a Human–Elephant Conflict-Management Framework for African Elephant-Range Countries

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
Creating a future for elephants and people is a highly complex and dynamic challenge, involving social, behavioral, and ecological dimensions as well as multiple actors with various interests.
E. Gross   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The milk of the African elephant [PDF]

open access: yesBritish 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Immunocontraception of African elephants [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Contagious Yawning in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana): Responses to Other Elephants and Familiar Humans

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) select less fragmented landscapes to connect core habitats in human‐dominated landscapes

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Ecology, 2020
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) utilise corridors to access limited resources, that is forage and water scattered across heterogeneous habitats they roam.
T. Gara   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

African Elephant Specialist Group Meeting Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 26 to 31 January, 1998

open access: yesPachyderm, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ground Survey Working Group. Working Group Discussion Two. [Proceedings of the AfESG meeting, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Nov. 17-22 1992]

open access: yesPachyderm, 1993
Refers to the terms of reference and summarizes the discussion of the Ground Survey Working Group chaired by Raman Sukumar. The differences between the surveys carried out in the regions were noted, the decision making steps taken before the survey was ...
Elephant African
doaj   +1 more source

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