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The elephant in the room [PDF]
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2012 Models for out-of-hours coverage of intensive care units (ICUs) post-cardiac surgery vary widely across Europe and the world. In the UK and in the major units in the USA, where there are high volume units, there tend to be a high number of trainees or middle grades who are able to provide 24-h resident coverage to the ICU and the wards.
B, Marien, F, McKinna
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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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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 +4 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 +21 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 +11 more
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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 +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 +4 more
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Future of Thailand's captive elephants: commentary on Baker & Winkler on elephant rewilding [PDF]
, 2020 Removal from natural habitat and commodification as private property compromise elephants’ broader societal value. Although we support Baker & Winkler’s (2020) plea for a new community-based rewilding conservation model focused on mahout culture, we ...
Bates, Lucy +3 more
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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 +2 more
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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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