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Fifth meeting of the African Elephant Specialist Group
Pachyderm, 2002 36 of the 48 AfESG members attended the Fifth AfESG meeting held 28 January to 1 February 2002 in Shaba NR , Kenya. The meeting included papers and discussion on: conservation and management implications associated with the fact that the African ...
Leo Niskanen
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2021 Distinct but related species of elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) circulate within Asian and African elephant populations. Primary infection with EEHVs endemic among Asian elephants can cause clinical illness and lethal EEHV hemorrhagic ...
Taylor Pursell +13 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 We wanted to clone the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) from slender African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi) for comparison to the P. dolloi mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), which we had cloned and were characterizing, as well as for comparison to the GRs from
Yoshinao Katsu +5 more
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Chinese Resident Preferences for African Elephant Conservation: Choice Experiment
Diversity, 2020 Despite passionate efforts to preserve African elephants worldwide, their numbers continue to decline. Some conservation programs have suspended operations because the funds provided by various governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs ...
Shuokai Wang +4 more
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Report: Sixth meeting of the African Elephant Specialist Group
Pachyderm, 2004 Reviews the sixth meeting of the AfESG,which was attended by 34 of the 48 members, held December 4-8, 2003 at Mokuti Lodge on the edge of Etosha NP in northern Namibia.
Leo Niskanen
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Reconciling apparent conflicts between mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies in African elephants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Conservation strategies for African elephants would be advanced by resolution of conflicting claims that they comprise one, two, three or four taxonomic groups, and by development of genetic markers that establish more incisively the provenance of ...
Yasuko Ishida +7 more
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QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2004 The familiarity of a forest of legs comforts and protects this vulnerable young elephant calf in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park. It …
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Forest elephant surveys in Central Africa
Pachyderm, 1989 Summarizes results from a ground reconnaissance survey intended to extrapolate forest elephant numbers in suitable Central African forest habitats. It is suggested that about 225,000 forest elephant may be present in Central African forests: one third ...
Richard Barnes
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Shining NIR light on ivory: A practical enforcement tool for elephant ivory identification
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 The elephant ivory trade remains controversial because of concerns about the extinction risk of elephants and the different needs of CITES member states.
Apinya Chaitae +6 more
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The African Elephants' Toe Nails
Journal of East African Natural History, 2017 Toe nails on front and hind feet of 689 culled elephants from three populations, two from Uganda and one from Kenya, were counted. Nineteen combinations were found, recorded as nails present on right front foot/left front foot/right hind foot/left hind foot. In addition, toenails from 33 foetuses are compared with their dams’ toe nail combinations. The
Parker, Ian S.C., Graham, Alistair D.
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