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Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants [PDF]
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2012 Yellow elephants are slow. A major reason is that they consume their inputs entirely before responding to an elephant rider's orders. Some clever riders have trained their yellow elephants to only consume parts of the inputs before responding.
Dittrich, Jens +5 more
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Elephant habituation to drones as a behavioural observation tool [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles, known as UAVs or drones, are increasingly important as a tool in wildlife research and conservation. However, it is crucial to quantify as well as qualify the response of target species to drones.
Angus Carey-Douglas +8 more
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Elephant Driven Changes in Riverine Tree Density Exacerbated by Biological Infestation in Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAfrican elephants (Loxodonta africana ) can profoundly impact the ecosystems in which they live and, therefore, are considered ecosystem engineers. Elephants break, push over, uproot, and de‐bark woody plants, which can threaten the survival of some tree
Vincent Kipkazi +5 more
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Notes and Queries, 1996 Existing models of open-access resources are applicable to non-storable resources, such as fish. Many open-access resources, however, are used to produce storable goods. Elephants, rhinos, and tigers are three prominent examples.
Charles Morcom, Michael Kremer
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Release From Captivity Allows African Savannah Elephant Movement Patterns to Converge With Those of Wild and Rehabilitated Conspecifics [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionRewilding captive animals is an important strategy for rehabilitating individuals and ecosystems. Comparing the behaviors of released animals to their wild counterparts enables the evaluation of their adaptive response to new environments, assuming that ...
Murphy Tladi +3 more
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Pachyderm, 2022 The value of art in Science is undisputed. From DaVinci’s drawings came a plethora of inventions, most notable is arguably his “aerial screw” which is highly suggestive of the helicopter we know today (Da Vinci, 1894), and the night skies of Charles ...
Harry Williams +8 more
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Inactivity/sleep in two wild free-roaming African elephant matriarchs - Does large body size make elephants the shortest mammalian sleepers? [PDF]
, 2017 The current study provides details of sleep (or inactivity) in two wild, free-roaming African elephant matriarchs studied in their natural habitat with remote monitoring using an actiwatch subcutaneously implanted in the trunk, a standard elephant collar
Bhagwandin, Adhil +8 more
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Developing a user-centred system for long-term elephant monitoring
Pachyderm, 2022 Originally envisaged as a three-year project, the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) has proved a labour of love for a small, dedicated team who have followed the life trajectories of more than 3,900 individual elephants over five decades. AERP’s
Vicki Fishlock +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The quantification of vegetation structure and composition at local and global scales provides valuable information for understanding the balance of the natural and human-made environment, which is crucial for natural resource planning and management ...
Gloria Mugo, Lydia Tiller, Lucy King
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The release of a captive-raised female African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana [PDF]
, 2013 Wild female elephants live in close-knit matrilineal groups and housing captive elephants in artificial social groupings can cause significant welfare issues for individuals not accepted by other group members. We document the release of a captive-raised
Evans, Kate E +2 more
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