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Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of Pleistocene mammoth Mammuthus primigenius. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2006 Phylogenetic relationships between the extinct woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), and the Asian (Elephas maximus) and African savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants remain unresolved. Here, we report the sequence of the complete mitochondrial genome
Evgeny I Rogaev +6 more
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Elephants and riparian woodland changes in the Linyanti region, northern Botswana
Pachyderm, 2010 The decline of woodlands as a result of elephant disturbance is of much concern for biodiversity conservation in Africa. Northern Botswana supports the largest elephant (Loxodonta africana) population and highest local density levels near rivers during ...
Gabriella Teren, Norman Owen-Smith
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A pathological condition in elephant dentition
Pachyderm, 2017 Growth of molars in the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is redescribed as background for a pathological dental condition reported from four elephants in Kenya, one in Zimbabwe (where other cases have been seen) and 84 in Uganda. Apparently chronic
Ian Parker
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Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 Animal movements towards goals or targets are based upon either maximization of resource acquisition or risk avoidance, and the way animals move can reveal information about their motivation. We use hidden Markov models fitted in a Bayesian framework and
S. Vogel +5 more
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Is nonlinear propagation responsible for the brassiness of elephant trumpet calls? [PDF]
, 2014 African elephants (Loxodonta africana) produce a broad diversity of sounds ranging from infrasonic rumbles to much higher frequency trumpets. Trumpet calls are very loud voiced signals given by highly aroused elephants, and appear to be produced by a ...
Dalmont, Jean-Pierre +3 more
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Habituation to Auditory Stimuli by Captive African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2015 Habituation is a major concern for the development of effective, long-term human-wildlife conflict mitigation and zoo enrichment programs. Elephants are cognitive species that exhibit many types of learning, such as associative, social, and insight ...
Sarah E. Goodyear, Bruce A. Schulte
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Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2023 This study evaluated the proximate and mineral composition of various parts of Balanites aegyptiaca, Mitragyna inermis, Cassia sieberiena, Kigelia africana, Detarium microcarpum, Terminalia laxiflora, Ficus platyphylla and Climber plant (Liana) as feeds ...
Sylvenus Aguree +2 more
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, 1979 Updates to the selected bibliography covering references from 1970 - mid ...
Editors, Elephant
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Two-choice discrimination learning in African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
Pachyderm, 2013 A study of two-choice discrimination learning across 22 pattern pairs was conducted with three African elephants (Loxodonta africana) at the Atlanta/Fulton County Zoo with rates of acquisition and retention observed to be similar to those earlier ...
Charles Hyatt
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, 1978 Selected bibliography covering references from 1970 - mid ...
Editors, Elephant
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