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Foraging history of individual elephants using DNA metabarcoding
Royal Society Open Science
Individual animals should adjust diets according to food availability.
© Jane Wynyard
Scientific Publications
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Uncoupling Elephant TP53 and Cancer
Trends in Evolution and Ecology
Elephant testicles do not descend, with implications for sperm production being hot enough to compromise germline DNA replication/repair.
Forward And Inverse Methods For Extracting Climate And Diet Information From Stable Isotope Profiles In Proboscidean Molars (2020)
Quaternary International
Intratooth stable isotope profiles in enamel provide time series of dietary and environmental information that if correctly interpreted, serve as archives of seasonal variability in past environments.
Beehive Fences As A Sustainable Local Solution To Human‐elephant Conflict In Thailand (2020)
Conservation Science and Practice
As human‐elephant conflict (HEC) increases, a better understanding of the human dimensions of these conflicts and non‐violent mitigation methods are needed to foster long‐term coexistence.
Movement Tortuosity And Speed Reveal The Trade-offs Of Crop Raiding For African Elephants (2020)
Animal Behaviour
Animals living in heterogeneous landscapes are often faced with making a trade-off between maximizing foraging success and avoiding risk. Using high-resolution GPS-tracking data, this study explored the fine-scale movement patterns and risk sensitivity of
Extracting Identifying Contours For African Elephants And Humpback Whales Using A Learned Appearance Model (2020)
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
This paper addresses the problem of identifying individual animals in images based on extracting and matching contours, focusing in particular on the trailing edges of humpback whale flukes and the outline of the ears of African savanna elephants.
Comparing An Automated High-definition Oblique Camera System To Rear-seat-observers In A Wildlife Survey In Tsavo, Kenya: Taking Multi-species Aerial Counts To The Next Level (2019)
Biological Conservation
In aerial wildlife counts, human observers often fail to detect animals. We conducted a multi-species sample-count in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, with traditional rear-seat-observers (RSOs) and an automated ‘oblique-camera-count’ (OCC) imaging system to c
Bees Help Protect Crops From Damage By Elephants In Kenya. (2009)
Bee Craft
The Elephants and Bees Research project is one of Save the Elephants' innovative programmes designed to explore the natural world for solutions to human-elephant conflict.
Behaviour And Crop-raiding Patterns Of Asian Elephants (elephas Maximus): Can Beehive Fences Help Mitigate Human-elephant Conflict In Sri Lanka? (2020)
Thesis/dissertation
Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in the form of crop-raiding, is a major conservation challenge to the long-term survival of elephant populations, simultaneously threatening the livelihoods and personal safety of people living in proximity to elephants.
Local Attitudes And Perceived Threats Of Human-elephant Conflict: A Case Study At Lake Jipe, Kenya (2020)
Pachyderm
Natural habitats are rapidly being converted to cultivated croplands, and crop-raiding by wildlife threatens both wildlife conservation and human livelihoods worldwide.
An Experimental Test Of Community-based Strategies For Mitigating Human–wildlife Conflict Around Protected Areas (2019)
Conservation Letters
Abstract Natural habitats are rapidly being converted to cultivated croplands, and crop-raiding by wildlife threatens both wildlife conservation and human livelihoods worldwide.
The Movement Of African Elephants In A Human-dominated Land-use Mosaic. (2009)
Animal Conservation
Land outside of gazetted protected areas is increasingly seen as important to the ?future of elephant persistence in Africa.