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Sexual Selection in Asian Elephants

Science, 1997
In an article by Pallava Bagla (Research News, [27 June, p. 1972][1]), a negative correlation between tusk length and parasite numbers in Asian elephant males ([1][2]) is reported, potentially another example of William Hamilton's theory that secondary sexual characteristics may be indicative of parasite levels ([2][3]).
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Future of the Asian Elephant

2018
According to Megasthenes, ambassador from the Seleucid Empire to the Mauryan court in the third century BC, Chandragupta Maurya's army of 30,000 cavalry and 6,00,000 infantry included 9,000 war elephants. Elephantry in the military was first practised in India, spread to southeast Asia and then went west on to the Mediterranean, as Greek king Pyrrhus ...
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China's dams isolate Asian elephants

Science, 2020
Zhihong, Wang, Zhengling, Li, Yongjing, Tang, Chongxue, Yao, Yu, Liu, Guilian, Jiang, Fang, Wang, Liang, Liang, Wenlan, Zhao, Gaofan, Zhu, Mingyong, Chen   +10 more
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Louse Infestation of Asian Elephants

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1976
K K, Kane, R M, Corwin, W J, Boever
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Tuberculosis threat in Asian elephants

Science, 2019
Sarad, Paudel, Susan K, Mikota, Toshio, Tsubota   +2 more
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Linnaeus's Asian elephant was wrong species

Nature, 2013
Molecular sleuths crack 300-year-old mystery over the identity of the Asian elephant type specimen.
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Elephants and empire: The Asian elephant, from Alexander to Akbar

2015
This thesis studies the prominence of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) in the historical record. The purpose is to show the impact of elephas on human affairs, most notably in the formation and destruction of empires. Of these empires, two are of primary importance: the conquests of Alexander the Great of Macedon, and the Mughal Empire of ...
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Reorganization of Asian climate in relation to Tibetan Plateau uplift

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2022
?? ?, Xiao-Min Fang, Yibo Yang
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The imbalance of the Asian water tower

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2022
Tobias Bolch, Deliang Chen, W W Immerzeel   +2 more
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Asian Elephants

2019
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