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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2026.
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

Histology of 24 organs from Asian elephant calves (Elephas maximus) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background Elephants are the largest and heaviest living terrestrial animals, but information on their histology is still lacking. This study provides a unique insight into the elephant’s organs and also provides a comparison between juvenile Asian ...
Chatchote Thitaram, Pitchaya Matchimakul, Wanpitak Pongkan, Wasan Tangphokhanon, Raktham Maktrirat, Jaruwan Khonmee, Anucha Sathanawongs, Piyamat Kongtueng, Korakot Nganvongpanit   +8 more
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Intangible drivers of tolerance shape human–elephant coexistence in Southwest China

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 8, Page 2763-2780, August 2026.
Abstract Southwest China is home to a small but rapidly expanding population of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), whose growth has intensified conflicts with people living in shared landscapes. These conflicts result in substantial economic losses and occasional human casualties. This coexistence paradox—where conservation success leads to significant
Xiaoyu Yu, Bin Wang, Liping Wang, Fei Chen, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding mammal avoidance of human settlements

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 8, Page 1504-1517, August 2026.
Terrestrial mammals often avoid human settlements, but is this a result of human activity around buildings or the built infrastructure per se? Using data on animal movement before and during the COVID‐19 lockdowns, this paper disentangles these effects, showing how changes in human mobility affect animals' avoidance of buildings. Abstract Anthropogenic
Jonathan R. Potts, Luca Börger, Marlee A. Tucker, Federico Ossi, Scott W. Yanco, Diego Ellis‐Soto, Thomas Müller, Ruth Y. Oliver, Mario H. Alves, Walter Arnold, Nina Attias, Guillaume Bastille‐Rousseau, Jerrold L. Belant, J. David Blount, Dean E. Beyer, Francesca Cagnacci, Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes, Aung N. Chan, Eric K. Cole, Jessica S. Cornils, Rogerio Cunha de Paula, Vickie DeNicola, Arnaud L. J. Desbiez, Sarah R. Dewey, David Drake, Michael Egan, Jasper A. J. Eikelboom, Morgan Farmer, Mathieu Garel, Jacob R. Goheen, Hans Peter Hansen, Lars Haugaard, Mark Hebblewhite, Morten Heim, Miloš Ježek, Lilla Jordán, Douglas N. Kamaru, Miha Krofel, Tayler N. LaSharr, Peter Leimgruber, Anne Loison, Ryan A. Long, Matthias‐Claudio Loretto, Pascal Marchand, Erling Meisingset, Joerg Melzheimer, Kevin L. Monteith, John J. Morgan, Rasmus M. Mortensen, Rebekka Mueller, Atle Mysterud, Astrid Olejarz, Teresa Oliveira, Manuela Panzacchi, Ruben Portas, Hubert Potočnik, Herbert H. T. Prins, Laura R. Prugh, Nathan Ranc, Ralf Roeder, Christer M. Rolandsen, Çağan Şekercioğlu, Aldin Selimovic, Rachel Smiley, Erling Johan Solberg, Olav Strand, Peter Sunde, Carole Toïgo, Bram Van Moorter, Tana L. Verzuh, Bettina Wachter, Brittany L. Wagler, Jesse Whittington, Christopher C. Wilmers, George Wittemyer, Christian Rutz   +75 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discrimination of ivory from extant and extinct elephant species using Raman spectroscopy: A potential non-destructive technique for combating illegal wildlife trade.

PLoS ONE
The use of elephant ivory as a commodity is a factor in declining elephant populations. Despite recent worldwide elephant ivory trade bans, mammoth ivory trade remains unregulated. This complicates law enforcement efforts, as distinguishing between ivory
Rebecca F Shepherd, Adrian M Lister, Alice M Roberts, Adam M Taylor, Jemma G Kerns   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asian elephants and their status in Nepal: a review

Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2021
Wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are one of the most endangered wildlife species in Nepal. Currently, there are approximately 200 to 250 wild elephants counted in Nepal.
Sami Shrestha, Jiban Shrestha
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Non-Invasive Assessment of Physiological Stress in Captive Asian Elephants

Animals, 2019
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) populations, both in the wild and in captivity, have been continually declining over the decades. The present study examined the physiological stress response of captive Asian elephants in relation to body condition score
Vinod Kumar, Muthulingam Pradheeps, Adiseshu Kokkiligadda, Rajashekhar Niyogi, Govindhaswamy Umapathy   +4 more
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Exploring legal‐ and health‐risk messaging to reduce demand for elephant skin

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are poached for an illegal trade in their skins, which are used in traditional medicine in Africa and Asia. We explored whether messages about the legal and health risks of using elephant skin for medicinal purposes (stomach illness) could reduce such consumption.
Beilu Duan, Zac Posada‐Baynham, Joceline Yong, Xiaoxi Zhang, Zhan Chen, Anita K. Y. Wan, Jingjing Zhao, Alexander Clark, Lishu Li, Wuji Zheng, Tien Ming Lee   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menopause Averted a Midlife Energetic Crisis With Help From Older Dependent Children and Parents: A Simulation Study

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives The grandmother hypothesis proposes that ancestral women ceased reproduction midlife to instead provision their grandchildren. An alternative “two‐sex” account proposes that the high energetic burden of caring for slow‐developing offspring was met with biparental investment.
Edward H. Hagen
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Elephas maximus, the Indian elephant

, 2008
The Indian or Asian elephant is the second largest land mammal on earth, and without doubt leaves an immense impression on those who meet it in the wild. Elephants are the symbols of worldly royal pomp and power, but also symbol of Buddha's last birth.
openaire   +1 more source