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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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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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Crafting Colonial Companions: Zionist Botany in Palestine, 1900‐1930s**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
In the early twentieth century, agricultural research played an important role in the Zionist movement's efforts to increase Palestine's productivity and to facilitate large‐scale Jewish settlement. Recent historiography has started to recognize the importance of agronomists and botanists as central actors in the broader project of Jewish‐Zionist ...
Mona Bieling
wiley   +1 more source

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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Strategies for Greater Inclusion of Indigenous Students in College Science Programs

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The substantial underrepresentation of American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiʻian (AI/AN/NH) students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors at United States colleges and universities results from systemic barriers in higher education.
Jonathan D. Baker, Nievita Bueno Watts, Devon S. Isaacs, Matthew D. Johnson, DenYelle B. Kenyon, Racheal Killgore, Catherine Peltier, Jesse L. Peltier, Sasheen Shailee C. Raymond, Alan H. Savitzky, Hugh E. Smeltekop, Amy E. Sprowles, Melissa Tehee, Jennifer Yazzie, Mary Jo Ondrechen   +14 more
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Asian elephants in China: estimating population size and evaluating habitat suitability.

PLoS ONE, 2015
We monitored the last remaining Asian elephant populations in China over the past decade. Using DNA tools and repeat genotyping, we estimated the population sizes from 654 dung samples collected from various areas.
Li Zhang, Lu Dong, Liu Lin, Limin Feng, Fan Yan, Lanxin Wang, Xianming Guo, Aidong Luo   +7 more
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Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants.

PLoS Biology, 2010
To elucidate the history of living and extinct elephantids, we generated 39,763 bp of aligned nuclear DNA sequence across 375 loci for African savanna elephant, African forest elephant, Asian elephant, the extinct American mastodon, and the woolly ...
Nadin Rohland, David Reich, Swapan Mallick, Matthias Meyer, Richard E Green, Nicholas J Georgiadis, Alfred L Roca, Michael Hofreiter   +7 more
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski, Robert S. A. Pickles, Matthew J. Muir, Steven J. Cooke, Joseph R. Bennett, Lisa A. Kelly, Adrienne Smith, Cynthia Cadet, Dwi N. Adhiasto, Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Mark D. Booton, Daphne P. Carlson, Drew T. Cronin, Anthony Dancer, Meredith L. Gore, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Stephen F. Pires, Amy Pokempner, James Slade, Andrew M. Lemieux   +19 more
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Do Asian elephants plan for mutually-exclusive outcomes?

Animal Cognition
The ability to prepare for mutually-exclusive outcomes is critical for future planning. Recently, the thought that this ability may be unique to humans has been questioned.
Sydney F. Hope, Sangpa Dittakul, Marnoch Yindee, Taweepoke Angkawanish, Joshua M. Plotnik   +4 more
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Land use transition and its driving mechanisms in China’s human-elephant conflict areas [PDF]

Ziyuan Kexue
[Objective] In the context of increasing conflicts between humans and Asian elephants, this study aims to elucidate the characteristics and driving mechanisms of land use transition in conflict areas and explore the mutual feedback relationship between ...
WANG Yuan, WANG Yahui, YANG Aoxi, FAN Hui, XIE Fei
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