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Ecology and SocietyHuman-wildlife conflicts resulting from the raiding of agricultural crops by elephants are among the major challenges affecting the conservation of this flagship species.
Lackson Chama +2 more
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Western Journal of Medicine, 2001 To the editor, In a clinical hypnosis lecture, focusing was explained not as ignoring the pink elephant standing in the middle of the room, but as focusing on 1 item that would exclude the elephant as a matter of course. I would like to address the elephant. Society is becoming distrustful of physicians, and we ignore this.
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 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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"Naming the Elephant": Literacy Classism, Human Rights and the Need for a New Conversation.
, 2021 B. Allan Quigley
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Two Central Nervous System Tumors in One Catheter Lab: Time to Rethink Radiation Protection
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Very little research has been done on the possible effects that repeated, frequent, and low‐dose ionizing radiation exposure has on the long‐term health of interventional cardiologists. Aims Following the diagnosis in the same year of two central nervous system tumors in two operators working in the same catheter laboratory, we ...
James R. Bentham, John D. R. Thomson
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Satellite animal tracking feasibility studies [PDF]
A study was initiated in Tsavo National Park to determine movements and home ranges of individual elephants and their relations to overall distribution patterns and environmental factors such as rainfall. Methods used were radio tracking and observations
Buechner, H. K.
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Census and ear-notching of black rhinos (Diceros bicornis michaeli) in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya [PDF]
, 2011 This paper updates the status of the black rhino population in Tsavo East National Park (NP). Data were acquired through aerial counts of the black rhino between 3 and 9 October 2010 using three fixed-wing husky aircrafts and a Bell 206L helicopter in an
Bitok, E. +8 more
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