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Urinalysis in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2009
Urine was collected from 22 healthy female adult Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and analyzed for the purpose of determining normal biochemical and microscopic parameters. Findings included urine that was less concentrated compared to other mammals, predominantly alkaline pH, crystalluria of varying types in all samples, and minimal cellularity ...
Ellen, Wiedner, A Rick, Alleman, Ramiro, Isaza   +2 more
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Incidence of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus in Asian elephants in India

Veterinary Microbiology, 2017
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) are the cause of acute hemorrhagic disease in endangered Asian and African elephants. In the present study, we report the incidence of EEHV infection and associated mortality in the captive elephant of Assam, India.
Nagendra N, Barman, Bhaskar, Choudhury, Vishnu, Kumar, Monika, Koul, Sophia M, Gogoi, Elina, Khatoon, A, Chakroborty, P, Basumatary, B, Barua, T, Rahman, S K, Das, Sachin, Kumar   +11 more
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Growth in the Asian elephant

Proceedings: Animal Sciences, 1988
Records of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) were used to derive parameters of the von Bertalanffy function for growth in height, body weight and circumference of tusks with age. There was some evidence for a post-pubertal secondary growth spurt in both male and female elephants.
Sukumar, R, Joshi, NV, Krishnamurthy, V
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Asian elephants acquire inaccessible food by blowing

Animal Cognition, 2015
Many animals acquire otherwise inaccessible food with the aid of sticks and occasionally water. As an exception, some reports suggest that elephants manipulate breathing through their trunks to acquire inaccessible food. Here, we report on two female Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Kamine Zoo, Japan, who regularly blew to drive food within their ...
Kaori, Mizuno, Naoko, Irie, Mariko, Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Nobuyuki, Kutsukake   +3 more
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Electrocardiography of the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2009
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are infrequently performed on Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), and few studies have been reported in the literature. The aim of this study was to determine reference ranges of ECG parameters in Asian elephants and to ascertain if age, body weight, and position of the elephant significantly affected the ECG ...
Susan L, Bartlett, Noha, Abou-Madi, Marc S, Kraus, Ellen B, Wiedner, Simon R, Starkey, George V, Kollias   +5 more
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Chemical Communication Among Asian Elephants

1986
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), a mammal of recognized high intellegence with a well-organized societal structure (McKay, 1973; Eisenberg et al., 1971; Olivier, 1978; Kurt, 1974), possesses a sophisticated array of sensory apparati. These sensory systems interplay in influencing both the immediate responses of the elephant and its long-term ...
L. E. Rasmussen, M. J. Schmidt, G. D. Daves   +2 more
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The exploitation of Asian elephants

1996
Asian elephants have a unique status as the only domesticated animal whose population depends on the recruitment of individuals caught in the wild. Elephants are used in their native countries such as India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for forestry work, religious festivals and in timber yards and are also housed in temples and logging camps. They
Jacob V. Cheeran, Trevor B. Poole
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Subclinical hypocalcaemia in captive Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus )

Veterinary Record, 2008
The hypothesis that hypocalcaemia may play a role in dystocia in captive Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) was investigated. The objectives of the study were to measure the total calcium concentration in elephant plasma; assess the changes in parameters of calcium metabolism during a ...
van der Kolk, J.H., van Leeuwen, J.P.T.M., van den Belt, A.J.M., van Schaik, R.H.N., Schaftenaar, W.   +4 more
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The Asian Elephant in Captivity

2006
Today, one out of three Asian elephants lives in captivity. Although captive elephants have existed since 3,500 years, they have never been domesticated. During the last few decades the life of the captive elephants brought to temples, cities and tourist resorts have become more miserable than it was while they lived in jungle camps.
Fred Kurt, Marion E. Garai
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Asian Elephant Reflections: Chirality Counts

2016
Enantiomers are stereoisomeric molecules, nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other yet otherwise identical. Such small, volatile, chiral compounds are frequently responsible for a diversity of defined chemical messages and corresponding (or resultant) precision of evoked responses most typically seen in insect chemical communication.
L. E. L. ‘Bets’ Rasmussen, David R. Greenwood, Thomas E. Goodwin, Bruce A. Schulte   +3 more
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