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Documenting Indigenous Traditional Knowledge of the Asian Elephant in Captivity
, 2014 "Elephants have been in captivity for nearly 3500 years now and recent estimates suggest that, globally, 15000 Asian elephants live in captive conditions. These elephants are housed in zoos, circuses, temples, government run elephant-camps/orphanages and
Raman, Sukumar +2 more
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Impact of Human–Elephant Conflict Risk Perception on Farmers’ Land Use Efficiency in Yunnan, China
LandIn countries and regions where Asian elephants are distributed, human–elephant conflict has become an important ecological and socio-economic issue. As one of the major habitats of Asian elephants, China faces severe challenges.
Mengyuan Zhao +3 more
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Temporal Responses to Warming: Do Wild Herbivores Trade Off Heat, Predators, and Humans?
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We untangled how summer temperature, predators, and humans influenced behavioral responses in two deer species. Both reduced their daily activity level in response to warming, yet only roe deer increased nocturnality to avoid heat. Conversely, fallow deer traded off heat avoidance with predator avoidance.
Noemi Pallari +6 more
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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2009 Background Artificial insemination (AI) using frozen-thawed semen is well established and routinely used for breeding in various mammalian species. However, there is no report of the birth of elephant calves following AI with frozen-thawed semen.
Wongkalasin Warut +14 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Asian elephant population parameters were assessed using microsatellite, SNP, and sex determination DNA markers. This represents one of the first studies in mainland Asia to demonstrate that integrating microsatellite and SNP data enhances genotyping success from degraded fecal samples, increases the number of useable samples and markers, and ...
Rachel Crouthers +5 more
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, 2020 Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) cause a fatal haemorrhagic disease (EEHV-HD) in juvenile Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and pose the single greatest threat to the sustainability of this endangered species in captivity.
Haycock, Jonathan
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Musth in female Asian Elephant
Zoos' Print Journal, 2003 1202 According to the census carried out in May 2002, Similipal forests (20o17'-22o34'N; 85o40'-87o10'E) of Orissa, harbour 512 elephants consisting of 96 males, 283 females, 133 juveniles and calves, and five whose sex could not be identified. Only one makhna, the tusk-less male, was in the record.
Debabrata Swain, L.A.K. Singh
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Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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Distribution and Status of the Asian Elephant [PDF]
Oryx, 1978 This comprehensive survey of the Asian elephant is the result of an FPS-sponsored project dating from 1973. The author is Co-Chairman with J.C. Daniel, Curator of the Bombay Natural History Society) of the Survival Service Commission's Asian Elephant Group, created in 1976.
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