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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.
Illegal Killing For Ivory Drives Global Decline In African Elephants (2014)
Save The Elephants
Illegal wildlife trade has reached alarming levels globally, extirpating populations of commercially valuable species.
The Influence Of Social Structure, Habitat, And Host Traits On The Transmission Of Escherichia Coli In Wild Elephants. (2014)
PLoS ONE
Social structure is proposed to influence the transmission of both directly and environmentally transmitted infectious agents.
Elephant Movement Closely Tracks Precipitation-driven Vegetation Dynamics In A Kenyan Forest-savanna Landscape. (2014)
Movement Ecology
This study investigates the ranging behavior of elephants in relation to precipitation-driven dynamics of vegetation.
Assessing Species Occurrence And Species-specific Use Patterns Of Bais (Forest Clearings) In Central Africa With Camera Traps. (2014)
African Journal of Ecology
The impacts of increasing resource extraction on biodiversity in the Central African rainforest are largely unknown, in part due to the lack of baseline data on species occurrence across the basin.
Novel Opportunities For Wildlife Conservation And Research With Real-time Monitoring. (2014)
Ecological Applications
The expansion of global communication networks and advances in animal tracking technology make possible the real-time telemetry of positional data as recorded by animal-attached tracking units.
Elliptical Time-density Model To Estimate Wildlife Utilization Distributions. (2014)
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
We present a new animal space-use model (Elliptical Time-Density - ETD) that uses discrete-time tracking data collected in wildlife movement studies.
China Faces A Conservation Challenge: The Expanding Elephant And Mammoth Ivory Trade In Beijing And Shanghai (2014)
Save The Elephants, Aspinall Foundation
The Chinese ivory industry has been expanding tremendously, especially in the last five years. Illegal ivory imports are the largest in the world by weight and have been soaring.
Long-term Monitoring Of Dzanga Bai Forest Elephants: Forest Clearing Use Patterns. (2013)
PLoS ONE
Individual identification of the relatively cryptic forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) at forest clearings currently provides the highest quality monitoring data on this ecologically important but increasingly threatened species.
Differentiation In Mineral Constituents In Elephant Selected Versus Unselected Water And Soil Resources At Central African Bais (Forest Clearings) (2014)
European Journal of Wildlife Research
Natural forest clearings (bais) in the Central African rain forest attract large numbers of mammals. Little is known about the factors influencing bai use by forest species, though geophagy and hydro-mineral resources are assumed to be important attractan
Status And Trends Of The Elephant Population In The Tsavo–mkomazi Ecosystem (2013)
Pachyderm
This paper updates the data on the population status of elephants in the Tsavo–Mkomazi ecosystem. Data were acquired through aerial census of elephants in the ecosystem, from 7 to 12 February 2011.