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eLife, 2016 A major constraint on the evolution of large body sizes in animals is an increased risk of developing cancer. There is no correlation, however, between body size and cancer risk. This lack of correlation is often referred to as 'Peto's Paradox'. Here, we
Michael Sulak +7 more
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Local's attitude towards African elephant conservation in and around Chebra Churchura National Park, Ethiopia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Tsegaye A, Bekele A, Atikem A.
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PLoS ONE, 2016 This study quantified social life events hypothesized to affect the welfare of zoo African and Asian elephants, focusing on animals that were part of a large multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional elephant welfare study in North America.
Natalia A Prado-Oviedo +6 more
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Pachyderm, 1989 Summarizes the interim ITRG report, as presented to the African Elephant Working Group meeting in Botswana July 1989, in terms of looking at the fall in elephant numbers and the effect this has on the elephant herds, the ivory exports from Africa the ...
Trade Ivory
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Sensorized objects used to quantitatively study distal grasping in the African elephant. [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Lo Preti M, Beccai L.
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Perceived costs as drivers of wildlife management preferences in rural Tanzanian communities
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Effectively managing human–wildlife interactions is crucial for fostering coexistence on shared landscapes. Management options are most effective when aligned with the preferences of people directly affected by wildlife, yet little is known about how socioecological factors influence these preferences.
Christian Kiffner +10 more
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Survival or extinction? How to save elephants and rhinos
Pachyderm, 2020 Suzannah Goss
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Identifying potential measures of stress and disturbance during a captive to wild African elephant reintegration. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Pretorius Y, Eggeling T, Ganswindt A.
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Utilisation of the African Elephant [PDF]
Nature, 1878 I have just read some remarks in NATURE (vol. xix. p. 54) on the utilisation of the African elephant, which I think are worth considering. Judging from the specimens in the Regent's Park Gardens, which I suppose have not been selected in any way, and are therefore only average samples of the African species, I should say that the African elephant would
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Assessment of ecosystem status in Mozambique and implications for environmental planning
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.We assess Mozambique's terrestrial ecosystems using the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems framework, showing that more than half of Mozambique's ecosystems are threatened, with impacts primarily concentrated in temperate subhumid grasslands and pyric tussock savannas.
Kendall R. Jones +12 more
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