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FOOT HEALTH OF ASIAN ELEPHANTS (ELEPHAS MAXIMUS) IN EUROPEAN ZOOS [PDF]

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2019
Foot problems are a common concern in elephant husbandry. Studies on this topic with sample sizes greater than 100 animals have only been carried out in North America. We investigated foot health of 243 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in 69 European institutions.
Wendler, Paulin, Ertl, Nicolas, Flügger, Michael, Sós, Endre, Schiffmann, Christian, Clauss, Marcus, Hatt, Jean-Michel   +6 more
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Opium Cultivation Imperilling Endangered Species in Northern Laos

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
To avoid government eradication efforts, farmers in northeastern Laos shifted opium cultivation deep into a national park, causing a > 1000% increase in protected forest cleared for the crop between 2018 and 2022. This displacement directly threatened endangered species like white‐cheeked gibbons, elephants, and dholes by causing a rise in hunting ...
Jay White, Khamphui Invixay, Akchousanh Rasphone, Vincent Nijman   +3 more
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Morphometric and Paleobiological Insights Into Pleistocene Sicilian Wolf Populations

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus) from Sicily represent one of the few known insular populations of this species from that time period. Despite their potential relevance for understanding carnivore adaptations in insular contexts, no dedicated study has previously investigated their morphology and evolutionary significance.
Domenico Tancredi, Carolina Di Patti, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Matteo Cammarata   +3 more
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Ultrastructure of Cardiac Myocyte in the Asian Elephant(Elephas maximus).

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 1995
Cardiac myocytes of an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) were observed by transmission electron microscopy. Typical ultrastructural features of cardiac myocytes are exhibited in the musculature of both the left and right atria, and left ventricle of the heart.
ENDO, Hideki, YAMADA, Tadasu K., SUZUKI, Naoki, SUWA, Gen, UETSUKA, Koji, HASHIMOTO, Osamu, KUROHMARU, Masamichi, HAYASHI, Yoshihiro   +7 more
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The importance of manual white blood cell differential counts and platelet estimates in elephant hematology: blood film review is essential

Veterinary Quarterly, 2021
Unique features of elephant hematology are known challenges in analytical methodology like two types of monocytes typical for members of the Order Afrotheria and platelet counts of the comparatively small elephant platelet.
Tatiana C. Weisbrod, Ramiro Isaza, Carolyn Cray, Laurie Adler, Nicole I. Stacy   +4 more
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Integrating natural baselines into ecosystem restoration: scaling herbivore targets for European landscapes

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Herbivore‐mediated ecosystem processes are fundamental to biodiversity, yet have been greatly diminished by megafauna extinctions and replacement of wild herbivores by managed livestock. With increasing restoration ambitions—including the United Nations' (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the European Union (EU) Nature ...
Camilla Fløjgaard, Robert Buitenwerf, Alessandro Chiarucci, Martin Konvička, Rasmus Mohr Mortensen, Norman Owen‐Smith, Deli Saavedra, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Rasmus Ejrnæs   +8 more
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Simulated elephant foraging alters tree root exudation rates: Species‐specific responses and implications for belowground carbon dynamics in tropical forests

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1733-1745, September 2026.
Asian elephants play crucial roles in ecosystem functioning, and their interactions with plants influence above‐ and belowground carbon cycling. We tested whether their mechanically destructive foraging triggers short‐term, stress‐induced shifts in tree root exudation, an underappreciated pathway linking herbivory to belowground carbon processes.
Pratibha Khatri, Bimal Sharma, Lisa Ong, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz   +3 more
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Concept-based imitation training in an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) using the do-as-I-do paradigm

Frontiers in Ethology
Imitation is a complex form of social learning that plays a critical role in cultural transmission and cognitive development across taxa; however, its expression in elephants remains poorly understood.
Deane Jones, Jayk Robertson, Rebecca Roskilley, Timothy Bennett   +3 more
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The potential effect of megafaunal extinctions on modern conservation of horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1563-1566, September 2026.
Many plant species worldwide are struggling to regenerate due to the ongoing effects of climate change. These effects appear to be further exacerbated by the loss of keystone megafauna, which were important seed dispersers. By identifying the traits commonly seen in seeds spread by modern elephants, it is possible to predict which species likely ...
Andrew J. Tighe
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On shed molars of Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus)

Japanese Journal of Oral Biology, 1979
In this paper, the eleven molars of four Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus LINNE) in two zoos are described. They were found in the straw where the elephants slept, except one premolar, artificially removed just before shedding.Compared with the molars in function, the shed molars exihibit the following: smaller number of lamellae, shorter crown ...
INUZUKA, Norihisa, SASAGAWA, Ichiro, YOSHIOKA, Toshio, TAKAHASHI, Masashi   +3 more
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