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“Smelly” Elephant Repellent: Assessing the Efficacy of a Novel Olfactory Approach to Mitigating Elephant Crop Raiding in Uganda and Kenya

Diversity, 2022
Human–elephant conflict is increasing across many parts of Asia and Africa. Mitigating elephant crop raiding has become a major focus of conservation intervention, however, many existing methods for tackling this problem are expensive and difficult to ...
Lydia N. Tiller, Ernest Oniba, Godfrey Opira, Ewan J. Brennan, Lucy E. King, Victor Ndombi, Derick Wanjala, Marion R. Robertson   +7 more
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Movement of Rehabilitated African Elephant Calves Following Soft Release Into a Wildlife Sanctuary

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021
The ability to locate essential resources is a critical step for wildlife translocated into novel environments. Understanding this process of exploration is highly desirable for management that seeks to resettle wildlife, particularly as translocation ...
Shifra Z. Goldenberg, Shifra Z. Goldenberg, Shifra Z. Goldenberg, Nathan Hahn, Jenna Stacy-Dawes, Stephen M. Chege, Stephen M. Chege, David Daballen, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Reuben R. Lendira, Reuben R. Lendira, Meshack J. Lengees, Meshack J. Lengees, Lemerketo Samuel Loidialo, Lemerketo Samuel Loidialo, Fred Omengo, Frank Pope, Chris Thouless, George Wittemyer, George Wittemyer, Megan A. Owen   +21 more
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Part I: Development of a new Human-Elephant Coexistence Toolbox for communities living with African savannah elephants (Loxodonta Africana)

Pachyderm, 2022
This field note is to invite our colleagues to peer review and test a new illustrated Human-Elephant Coexistence (HEC) Toolbox that is being developed in Kenya by Save the Elephants (STE) under the organizations’ mission to secure a future for elephants
Lucy King, Naiya Raja, Meha Kumar, Nicola Heath, Frank Pope   +4 more
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System for Elephant Ear-pattern Knowledge (SEEK) to identify individual African elephants

Pachyderm, 2020
Elephant numbers have drastically declined over the past century with illegal killings, habitat fragmentation and human-elephant-conflict representing the greatest threats.
Anka Bedetti, Cathy Greyling, Barry Paul, Jennifer Blondeau, Amy Clark, Hannah Malin, Jackie Horne, Ronny Makukule, Jessica Wilmot, Tammy Eggeling, Julie Kern, Michelle Henley   +11 more
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Influence of infrastructure, ecology, and underpass-dimensions on multi-year use of Standard Gauge Railway underpasses by mammals in Tsavo, Kenya

Scientific Reports, 2022
Rail and road infrastructure is essential for economic growth and development but can cause a gradual loss in biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem function and services.
Fredrick Lala, Patrick I. Chiyo, Patrick Omondi, Benson Okita-Ouma, Erustus Kanga, Michael Koskei, Lydia Tiller, Aaron W. Morris, William J. Severud, Joseph K. Bump   +9 more
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Local attitudes and perceived threats of human elephant conflict: a case study at Lake Jipe, Kenya

Pachyderm, 2020
Opportunity costs of human–elephant conflict are complex and pose diverse challenges to both humans and elephants, whether real or perceived. In the Lake Jipe area, on the western boundary of Tsavo West National Park in Kenya, people see elephants in ...
Maureen W Kinyanjui, Naiya R Raja, Ewan J Brennan, Lucy E King, Lydia N Tiller   +4 more
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Monitoring Behaviour in African Elephants during Introduction into a New Group: Differences between Related and Unrelated Animals

Animals, 2021
The introduction of elephants into new groups is necessary for breeding programmes. However, behavioural studies on the reactions of these animals at first encounters are missing. In the present study, female African elephants (Loxodonta africana) living
Franziska Hörner, Ann-Kathrin Oerke, Dennis W. H. Müller, Uta Westerhüs, Idu Azogu-Sepe, Jiri Hruby, Gela Preisfeld   +6 more
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Elephant cognition in primate perspective [PDF]

, 2009
On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from other mammals, such as primates: discrimination learning, memory, spontaneous tool use, etc. However, a range of more naturalistic measures have recently
Bates, Lucy, Byrne, Richard William, Moss, C J   +2 more
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(0,2) elephants [PDF]

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012
51 pages, oversimplification in spectral sequence ...
Aspinwall, Paul S., Melnikov, Ilarion V., Plesser, M. Ronen   +2 more
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Differential influence of human impacts on age‐specific demography underpins trends in an African elephant population

Ecosphere, 2021
Diagnosing age‐specific influences on demographic trends and their drivers in at‐risk wildlife species can support the development of targeted conservation interventions. Such information also underpins understanding of life history.
George Wittemyer, David Daballen, Iain Douglas‐Hamilton   +2 more
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