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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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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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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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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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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim, Hayeon Shin, Seik Park, Changbeom Shim, Seonggun Joe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Elephants - a conservation overview

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2010
Loss of habitat is one of the most significant problems facing elephants worldwide, leading to clashes over resources between wildlife and humans where elephants receive the largest part of blame - defined as Human Elephant Conflict (HEC).
H.S. Riddle, B.A. Schulte, A.A. Desai, L. van der Meer   +3 more
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History: The Birth of America in 1882 [PDF]

, 2008
This article concerns a New York Times story about the birth of the female Asian elephant calf, named America, at the winter headquarters of the Greatest Show on Earth in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 2, 1882. Phineas T. Barnum, one of the owners
Dale, Robert H.I.
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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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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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