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Powerful, award-winning nature films like ‘The Elephant Queen’, made by filmmakers Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone and Etienne Oliff, have the potential to reshape attitudes and garner support for elephants in rural communities, according to a new study.
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The tusks of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) have evolved as intra-sexual combat weapons, as well as tools for feeding and digging.
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Individual animals should adjust diets according to food availability.
Elephant testicles do not descend, with implications for sperm production being hot enough to compromise germline DNA replication/repair.
The illegal wildlife trade is one of the most high-value illicit trade sectors globally, threatening both human well-being and biodiversity.
To conserve wide-ranging species in human-modified landscapes, it is essential to understand how animals selectively use or avoid cultivated areas.
Historically, elephants and humans have been integral players in the structuring of the African savanna landscape.
Proclaimed in 1907, Etosha National Park in northern Namibia is an iconic dryland system with a rich history of wildlife conservation and research.
Conservation translocations have the potential to strengthen populations of threatened and endangered species, but facilitating integration of translocated individuals with resident populations remains a substantial challenge.
Orphans of several species suffer social and physiological consequences such as receiving more aggression from conspecifics and lower survival.
Human–elephant conflict is increasing across many parts of Asia and Africa. Mitigating elephant crop raiding has become a major focus of conservation intervention, however, many existing methods for tackling this problem are expensive and difficult to exe
