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Elephant culture matter for China's Asian elephants conservation

Journal of Zoological Research, 2020
Traditional anthropogenic impacts such as hunting, using as war-elephant, trading of ivory, paying tribute to the imperial court and so on, were once thought to be directly responsible for the rapid decline of Asian elephants in China. But in Yunnan Province, China, a unique human factor such as the traditional elephant culture of local ethnic ...
Yongjing Tang, Zhengling Li, Guilian Jiang, Ting Lv, Lei Zhang, Wenlan Zhao, Gaofan Zhu, Mingyong Chen   +7 more
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Historical Account of Managing Overabundant Wild Asian Elephants in Myanmar by the Kheddah System of Capture: Philosophy, Principles and Practices

Animals
When standard methods of human–elephant conflict mitigation are not successful, free-ranging wild elephants may continue to come into close contact with people.
Khyne U. Mar
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Seasonal variation of health in Asian elephants

Conservation Physiology, 2020
AbstractLong-lived species are often predicted to be buffered against seasonal variation: longevity means low annual mortality and reproductive rates and annual variability in climate may therefore have a smaller impact on population growth rates of long-lived species in comparison to short-lived ones.
Franco dos Santos, Diogo J, Berger, Vérane, Cristofari, Robin, Htut, Win, Nyein, U Kyaw, Aung, Htoo Htoo, Reichert, Sophie, Lummaa, Virpi   +7 more
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Wild elephants vary in their attraction to novelty across an anthropogenic landscape gradient

Royal Society Open Science
Research on how wild animals respond to novelty is becoming more relevant as the overlap between natural habitats and human-dominated landscapes increases.
Sarah L. Jacobson, Sangpa Dittakul, Mananya Pla-ard, Supang Sittichok, Marnoch Yindee, Joshua M. Plotnik   +5 more
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Using species-specific protocols for the welfare assessment of elephants in the Skopje Zoo

Macedonian Veterinary Review, 2022
Providing good animal welfare standards is very important for wild animals in captivity, especially in zoos. Therefore, the aim of this study was to perform a welfare assessment of elephants in the Skopje Zoo using species-specific protocols.
Ena Dobrikj, Vlatko Ilieski, Ksenija Ilievska, Miroslav Kjosevski   +3 more
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Fatal Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus Infection of Two Young Asian Elephants [PDF]

Microorganisms, 2019
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV) can cause a devastating haemorrhagic disease in young Asian elephants worldwide. Here, we report the death of two young Asian elephants after suffering from acute haemorrhagic disease due to EEHV-1A infection.
Selvaraj Pavulraj, Kathrin Eschke, Adriane Prahl, Michael Flügger, Jakob Trimpert, Petra B. van den Doel, Sandro Andreotti, Sabine Kaessmeyer, Nikolaus Osterrieder, Walid Azab   +9 more
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From the May Fourth Movement to the Comintern: the making of a Chinese revolutionary through the example of Xiao San

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The biography of Xiao San (1896–1983) represents a typical path of a Chinese revolutionary intellectual, illustrating the transformation from a May Fourth Movement patriot to a professional communist integrated into the international ...
D. S. Krebs
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A new record of orchid species, Gastrodia exilis Hook.f., from Yunnan in China and morphological comparison with close relevant species

Xibei zhiwu xuebao
[Objective] A newly recorded orchid species, Gastrodia exilis Hook.f., was spotted from Yunnan Province, China, and its main characters were compared with its morphologically close relatives G. menghaiensis Z.H. Tsi & S.C. Chen, G. putaoensis X.H.
ZHAO Mingxu, TAN Yunhong, ZHANG Jiansong, ZHANG Jiejing, ZHANG Guangyuan, CHEN Fei   +5 more
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Serological study on brucellosis in captive elephants (Elephas maximus) and stray dogs in North Thailand [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2020
Background and Aim: Brucellosis is considered as an important zoonotic disease caused by various strains of Brucella in numerous host species. Although brucellosis has been reported in almost animal species, the relevance of brucellosis infection and ...
Suchanit Ngamkala, Taweepoke Angkawanish, Weerapun Nokkaew, Nikorn Thongtip   +3 more
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Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant

PLoS ONE, 2011
The "aha" moment or the sudden arrival of the solution to a problem is a common human experience. Spontaneous problem solving without evident trial and error behavior in humans and other animals has been referred to as insight. Surprisingly, elephants, thought to be highly intelligent, have failed to exhibit insightful problem solving in previous ...
Foerder, Preston, Galloway, Marie, Barthel, Tony C., Moore, Donald, Reiss, Diana   +4 more
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