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CT anatomy of cervical vertebrae of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2022 Background Elephants are currently the largest mammals on earth. A comprehensive examination of the anatomy of this animal to diagnose various disorders is required.
Omid Zehtabvar +6 more
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Fecal DNA Metabarcoding Reveals the Diet of Asian Elephant in China During the Dry Season: Implications for Adaptation to Habitat Resources and Conservation [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is a flagship species of the tropical forest ecosystem in Asia, playing a crucial role in maintaining ecological stability.
Qiang Guo +8 more
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Immunostimulation of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) blood cells by parapoxvirus ovis and CpG motif-containing bacterial plasmid DNA upregulates innate immune gene expression [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyThe immune system of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) is poorly studied, compared to that of livestock, rodents or humans. The innate immune response has become a focus of interest in relation to Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs).
Jonathan Haycock +5 more
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Ecology and EvolutionThe Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), a crucial flagship and umbrella species in forest ecosystems, possesses significant conservation value. However, it has been categorized as endangered due to several factors, including land use change, human ...
Xing Yun +7 more
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Assessing the Psychological Priorities for Optimising Captive Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare [PDF]
Animals, 2019 The welfare status of elephants under human care has been a contentious issue for two decades or more in numerous western countries. Much effort has gone into assessing the welfare of captive elephants at individual and population levels with little ...
Jake Stuart Veasey
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The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management.
The Journal of Applied Ecology, 1990 Book review for the following title: The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management. By Raman Sukumar, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 282 pages.
N. Leader-Williams, R. Sukumar
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Oryx, 2023 Many protected areas worldwide have been established to protect the last natural refuges of flagship animal species. However, long-established protected areas do not always match the current distributions of target species under changing environmental ...
Li-Li Li +7 more
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Self-recognition in an Asian elephant [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 Considered an indicator of self-awareness, mirror self-recognition (MSR) has long seemed limited to humans and apes. In both phylogeny and human ontogeny, MSR is thought to correlate with higher forms of empathy and altruistic behavior. Apart from humans and apes, dolphins and elephants are also known for such capacities.
Joshua M, Plotnik +2 more
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Corridor use by Asian elephants [PDF]
Integrative Zoology, 2009 AbstractThere are 18 km of Kunming–Bangkok Highway passing through the Mengyang Nature Reserve of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, China. From September 2005 to September 2006 the impact of this highway on movement of wild Asian elephants between the eastern and western part of the nature reserve was studied using track ...
Wenjing, Pan +3 more
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Ecology and Behavior of the Asian Elephant
Elephant, 1980 The Asian elephant was studied in Sri Lanka from 1967 until 1978. Under the sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution, six zoologists have addressed themselves to an analysis of the behavior and ecology of the Asian elephant over a period of eleven ...
Eisenberg, John F., John F. Eisenberg
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