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Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1988 Alors que l’on assiste à une réduction, voire à l’élimination des populations d’éléphants africains Loxodonta africana dans de nombreux pays, l’observation au Togo d’une augmentation de leurs effectifs apparaît comme un fait unique en Afrique ...
Bertrand Chardonnet
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Pachyderm, 1993 The Sudanian region of Cameroon covers about 198,000 sq kms and comprises two major domains; the Sahelian and the Sudanian. The Waza-Logone floodplain, which lies in the sahelian domain, contains about 1100 elephant, one of the largest populations of ...
Martin Tchamba
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Pachyderm, 1983 Reviews the background behind the decision to develop the AERSG by combining the African Elephant and Rhino Specialist Groups into one body focused on the conservation of both species.
David Western
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski +19 more
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Histos, 2016 A recent DNA survey carried out in Eritrea provides the starting point for this article. It has been established that the elephants still roaming in the Gash Barka area are members of the species Loxodonta africana (or savannah elephant).
Pierre Schneider
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A Novel Objective Method of Estimating the Age of Mandibles from African Elephants (Loxodonta africana Africana). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The importance of assigning an accurate estimate of age and sex to elephant carcasses found in the wild has increased in recent years with the escalation in levels of poaching throughout Africa.
Fiona J Stansfield
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Behavioural variability among captive African elephants in the use of the trunk while feeding [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The Proboscideans, an order of mammals including elephants, are the largest of the Earth lands animals. One probable consequence of the rapid increase of their body size is the development of the trunk, a multitask highly sensitive organ used in a large ...
Maëlle Lefeuvre +4 more
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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 2008 Captive and wild African elephants frequently suffer tusk fractures. Several institutions shorten the tusks of captive elephants to reduce fractures and injury as a result of behaviour within enclosures. Fracturing or coronal amputations that expose pulp lead to pain for the elephant.
Steenkamp, Gerhardus +4 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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Plasma testosterone levels in relation to musth in the male African Elephant
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1984 A long-term study of the behaviour and ecology of the African elephant Loxodonta africana was begun in the Addo Elephant National Park in 1976. During the period June 1976 to March 1979 regular observations were made on all animals.
A.J Hall-Martin, L.A van der Walt
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