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Pachyderm, 1995 Two main working groups, one focused on human-elephant conflict and the other on trade and illegal hunting, were convened and each divided into sub-groups to discuss specific aspects of the theme.
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Continent-wide survey reveals massive decline in African savannah elephants [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are imperiled by poaching and habitat loss. Despite global attention to the plight of elephants, their population sizes and trends are uncertain or unknown over much of Africa.
Michael J. Chase +13 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 The current study provides details of sleep (or inactivity) in two wild, free-roaming African elephant matriarchs studied in their natural habitat with remote monitoring using an actiwatch subcutaneously implanted in the trunk, a standard elephant collar
Nadine Gravett +7 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2017 South Africa has seen a recent increase in the number of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) maintained in reserves and parks and managed in free contact, where they may spend a significant amount of time in close proximity to humans.
Zoë T. Rossman +3 more
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Habitat conversion intensifies human elephant conflicts in the Eastern Wildlife Corridor, Ghana
Pachyderm, 2022 Ghana was ranged by fairly large herds of elephants up until the 1970s (Douglas-Hamilton 1979). At one time elephants were found throughout the country but, as elsewhere on the continent, elephant habitat contracted during the 20th century.
Joseph Kwasi Binlinla
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1981 An early record of a sandfly feeding on an amphibian is that of Hewlett (1913, Indian J. med. Res. 1: 34-38) who wrote "I have twice seen a sandfly apparently biting the head of the common toad Bufo melanostictus".
H. H Braack +3 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007 Background Previous phylogenetic analyses of African elephants have included limited numbers of forest elephant samples. A large-scale assessment of mitochondrial DNA diversity in forest elephant populations here reveals a more complex evolutionary ...
Curran Bryan +7 more
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Changes in African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) faecal steroid concentrations post-defaecation
Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2018 Background: Faecal hormone metabolite measurement is a widely used tool for monitoring reproductive function and response to stressors in wildlife. Despite many advantages of this technique, the delay between defaecation, sample collection and processing
Judith T. Webber +4 more
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Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2018 Management interventions are necessary to control elephant numbers within fenced wildlife reserves in South Africa. Use of non-lethal control methods is increasing, but information about their suitability and effects are not widely available.
Marion E. Garaï +6 more
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