Elephants rest more when the poaching risk is high and do not recover the lost time within a diel cycle
Poaching for ivory has caused disturbances in the behaviour of elephants. The nature and magnitude of such disturbance are not yet fully understood. Here, we studied the daily activity cycles of 10 elephants tracked for a minimum of two years each in the Samburu ecosystem in Kenya. The elephants wer...
Main Authors: | Festus W. Ihwagi, Andrew K. Skidmore, Guillaume Bastille-Rosseau, Tiejun Wang, Albertus Toxopeus, Iain Douglas-Hamilton |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-06-01
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Series: | Global Ecology and Conservation |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198942400115X |
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