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Responses of African elephants towards a bee threat: Its application in mitigating human–elephant conflict

South African Journal of Science, 2016
Human settlement expansion into elephant ranges, as well as increasing elephant populations within confined areas has led to heightened levels of human–elephant conflict in southern African communities living near protected areas.
Mduduzi Ndlovu, Emma Devereux, Melissa Chieffe, Kendra Asklof, Alicia Russo   +4 more
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Elephants in the farm – changing temporal and seasonal patterns of human-elephant interactions in a forest-agriculture matrix in the Western Ghats, India

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023
Accelerating levels of human-elephant conflicts (HEC) have become a topic of major concern in conservation efforts of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) throughout their range.
N. R. Anoop, N. R. Anoop, Siddhartha Krishnan, T. Ganesh   +3 more
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A qualitative analysis of the main threats to Asian elephant conservation [PDF]

, 2016
In this study we identified the main threats to the conservation of Asian elephants and discuss their causes and implications. Primary data from interviews and secondary data from published articles were gathered and analysed using inductive and ...
Abd Manaf, Latifah, Ariffin, Mariani, Lee, Ee Ling   +2 more
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Effects of social disruption in elephants persist decades after culling. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND Multi-level fission-fusion societies, characteristic of a number of large brained mammal species including some primates, cetaceans and elephants, are among the most complex and cognitively demanding animal social systems. Many free-ranging
Cynthia Moss, Graeme Shannon, Joyce Poole, Karen McComb, Katito N Sayialel, Rob Slotow, Sarah M Durant, Shannon, Graeme   +7 more
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Living with elephants: Analyzing commonalities and differences in human-elephant conflicts in China and Tanzania based on residents' perspectives

Global Ecology and Conservation
Humans and elephants inevitably encounter competition over resources in the elephant habitat. Due to different social development conditions, there may be differences in how humans and elephants coexist in different regions, mainly reflected in the ...
Han Zhang, Sihan Guo, Li Ma, Kaiwen Su, Alex Lobora, Yilei Hou, Yali Wen   +6 more
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The Complex Links Between Governance and Biodiversity [PDF]

, 2006
We argue that two problems weaken the claims of those who link corruption and the exploitation of natural resources. The first is conceptual. Studies that use national level indicators of corruption fail to note that corruption comes in many forms, at ...
Barrett, C., Gibson, C., Hoffman, B., McCubbins, Mathew D.   +3 more
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Cinematic and aesthetic cartographies of subjective mutation [PDF]

, 2012
This article exmaines the use of cinema as a mapping of subjective mutation in the work of Deleuze, Gauttari and Berardi. Drawing on Deleuze's distinciton between the reduction of the art-work to the symptom and the idea of art as symptomatology, the ...
A Brustellin, C Marker, C Metz, D Fincher, D Fincher, F Berardi, F Berardi, F Berardi, F Guattari, G Deleuze, G Deleuze, G Deleuze, G Deleuze, G Deleuze, G Genosko, G Van Sant, I Bergman, I Bergman, I Bergman, K Ki-Duk, L Mulvey, M Antonioni, M Goddard, M Moore, Michael Goddard, O Welles, T Malick, W Reich, W Wenders, W Wenders, W Wenders, Z Ke Jia   +31 more
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Implantation of subcutaneous heart rate data loggers in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) [PDF]

, 2017
Unlike most phocid species (Phocidae), Mirounga leonina (southern elephant seals) experience a catastrophic moult where they not only replace their hair but also their epidermis when ashore for approximately 1 month.
Ancel, André, Chaise, Laureline L., Gallon, Susan L., Gilbert, Caroline, Laske, Timothy G., McCafferty, Dominic J., Paterson, William, Théry, Marc   +7 more
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A mixed‐methods assessment of human‐elephant conflict in the Western Okavango Panhandle, Botswana

People and Nature, 2023
Human‐wildlife conflict, where interactions have negative impacts on both people and animals, is complex with underlying drivers and broad ecological and social impacts.
Erin K. Buchholtz, Megan McDaniels, Graham McCulloch, Anna Songhurst, Amanda Stronza   +4 more
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“Human elephant conflict in changing land-use land-cover scenario in and adjoining region of Buxa tiger reserve, India”

Environmental Challenges, 2022
The land use land cover changes (LULCC) in and around wildlife habitat are one of the major driving forces behind frequent human elephant conflict (HEC).
Chiranjib Nad, Ranjan Roy, Tamal Basu Roy   +2 more
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