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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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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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Entangled lives, relational ontology and rock paintings: Elephant and human figures in the rock art of the Western Cape, South Africa

Southern African Field Archaeology, 2023
From the form and composition of painted images of humans, elephants and ‘elephanthropes’ (elephant human therianthropes) from the northern Cederberg, we propose that elephants were considered as ‘other-than-human-persons’ by painters. This is supported
John Parkington, Joe Alfers
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The Elephant in the Room

CoRR, 2018
We showcase a family of common failures of state-of-the art object detectors. These are obtained by replacing image sub-regions by another sub-image that contains a trained object. We call this "object transplanting". Modifying an image in this manner is shown to have a non-local impact on object detection.
Amir Rosenfeld, Richard S. Zemel, John K. Tsotsos   +2 more
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The Elephant in the Room [PDF]

Cell Metabolism, 2015
Scientific reproducibility in biological sciences has recently moved front and center, and at its heart lies experimental replication. The mounting number of sensational reports of irreproducibility and the dramatic estimates of ensuing economic burden that have been making headlines are an embarrassment to us all, even if the reports likely represent ...
Emambokus, Nikla, Granger, Anne
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Shoulder height, body mass and shape of proboscideans [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in proboscideans’ body size, given that mass is highly correlated with biological functions. Different allometric equations have been proposed in the recent decades to estimate their body masses, based ...
Asier Larramendi
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