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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.
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Individual animals should adjust diets according to food availability.
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Elephant testicles do not descend, with implications for sperm production being hot enough to compromise germline DNA replication/repair.
Repeated use of the same areas may benefit animals as they exploit familiar sites, leading to consistent home ranges over time that can span generations.
In the southern Bago Yoma mountain range in Myanmar, Asian elephants are being killed at a disturbing rate. This emerging crisis was identified initially through a telemetry study when 7 of 19 of collared elephants were poached within a year of being fitt
Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are threatened primarily by habitat loss and human–elephant conflict.
As human and elephant populations grow in Kenya, elephants increasingly leave parks to eat farmers’ crops while foraging, which creates epicenters of human-elephant conflict (HEC).
Much of the African ivory that reaches Myanmar is smuggled in containers to Vietnam and is transported usually in worked form up the Mekong River through the infamous Golden Triangle region into the east of the country on the border with China, to meet Ch
The illegal killing of elephants, i.e. poaching and human-elephant related mortality, is the greatest immediate threats to elephants. They have led to declining of many populations of elephants in Africa.
Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across species.
Compensatory social behavior in nonhuman animals following maternal loss has been documented, but understanding of how orphans allocate bonding to reconstruct their social networks is limited.
Dominance hierarchies are expected to form in response to socioecological pressures and competitive regimes.