Kinship, drought and matriarchs shape elephant family ties
More than 50 years of records from Amboseli, Kenya, show how elephant family cohesion shifts as families grow,…
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Elephants Have Unusual Enzyme Genes for Processing Foreign Compounds
A comparison of African and Asian elephants found duplicated UGT2B enzyme variants and differences in SULT genes. Tissue…
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Elephants and buffalo showed the clearest signs of range expansion after translocation in Malawi
A six-year camera-trap study in Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve found the clearest signs of establishment and expansion in African…
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Vibrational signatures in ivory do not reliably distinguish elephant species
A study of ten ivory pieces from a Qing-dynasty screen in Beijing found that proposed infrared and Raman…
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An ancient viral gene may have been repurposed in elephant placenta
An ancient viral gene that appears to have been inherited for at least 79 million years is strongly…
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Three Ways of Analysing Elephant Calls Gave Different Results
Recordings from a semi-free herd in South Africa show how the method used to classify call timing can…
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Elephant Rank Was Linked to Stress Levels After Helicopter Disturbance
In a small, fenced elephant population, helicopter use was associated with higher stress-hormone markers. Lower-ranking elephants had higher…
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Elephant Rumble Choruses Carried Context and Sometimes Converged During Coordination
Recordings from wild African bush elephants in Amboseli showed that behavioural context remained detectable in overlapping rumble choruses.…
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African Bush Elephants Distinguished Artificial Food-Quantity Patterns at Close Range
In experiments in South Africa, four semi-tame elephants chose between visual patterns representing canopy size and leaf density.…
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What African Bush Elephants Eat in Nigeria’s Dry Season
Three weeks of observations in Yankari Game Reserve recorded elephants feeding mainly on leaves. Of four sampled forage…
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Wild Elephants Used 41 Gesture Types to Make Others Move Away or Stop
Wild African bush elephants in Addo and Marakele used 41 gesture types during conflicts, mainly to make another…
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Mount Elgon Elephants May Seek Medicinal Plants When Sick or Caring for Calves
Eight experienced Sabaot observers described 35 plants and four soil or mineral resources used by elephants around Mount…
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Models project a halving of suitable habitat for African Bush Elephants in East Africa
A study covering eight East African countries projects that climate-suitable habitat for the African Bush Elephant could shrink…
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Maps point to higher elephant crop-raiding risk near protected areas in Zimbabwe
Using more than 700 mapped locations of elephant crop-raiding conflict south of Victoria Falls, researchers identified higher predicted…
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Relocated Elephants Took Two Years to Find Their Feet
Twenty-five elephant herds in Zimbabwe explored their new home largely on their own. Familiar water sources became reference…
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Food Leaves Its Mark on the Gut Bacteria of Kruger’s Wildlife
Gut bacteria in nine mammal species from Kruger National Park followed clear patterns linked to food and digestion.…
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Satellite Image Revealed Fewer Elephants Than Aerial Count in Botswana
Researchers found 688 elephants in a satellite image of Botswana, while a simultaneous aerial survey counted 816. Trees…
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Male Elephants Made Most Visits to the Bones of a Long-Dead Bull
A camera at the remains of a long-dead bull in southern Kenya recorded 34 elephant visits over 3.5…
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First Reported Giardia Detections in Four Wild Herbivore Species in Kenya
Molecular screening of wildlife and livestock in Laikipia produced the first reported Giardia detections in African buffalo, plains…
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Detailed Satellite Mapping Improved Models of Possible Elephant Corridors in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe’s Binga District, a detailed satellite map of dry-forest type and structure made models of possible elephant…
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