On the ecology and behaviour of the African elephant by Douglas-Hamilton, I

African elephants : a celebration of majesty / by Balfour, Daryl, 1952-, Balfour, Sharna, author

Subjects: “…African elephant…”

Sexual dimorphism in African elephant social rumbles. by Anton Baotic, Angela S Stoeger

“…This study used the source and filter theory approach to analyse sex differences in the acoustic features of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) low-frequency rumbles produced in social contexts ('social rumbles'). …”
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Long-Term Olfactory Memory in African Elephants by Franziska Hoerner, Arne Lawrenz, Ann-Kathrin Oerke, Dennis W. H. Müller, Idu Azogu-Sepe, Marco Roller, Karsten Damerau, Angelika Preisfeld

“…African elephants are capable of discriminating scents up to a single changed molecule and show the largest reported repertoire of olfactory receptor genes. …”
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Bee threat elicits alarm call in African elephants by King, L, Soltis, J, Douglas-Hamilton, I, Savage, A, Vollrath, F

“…Unlike the smaller and more vulnerable mammals, African elephants have relatively few predators that threaten their survival. …”

Movements and corridors of African elephants in relation to protected areas by Douglas-Hamilton, I, Krink, T, Vollrath, F

“…Using state-of-the-art global positioning system (GPS) technology we tracked 11 focal African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Kenya at 3-hourly fix intervals and collected between 34 and 406 days per individual. …”

African elephants run from the sound of disturbed bees by King, LE, Douglas-Hamilton, I, Vollrath, F

“…Encroaching human development into former wildlife areas is compressing African elephants into ever smaller home ranges, causing increased levels of human–elephant conflict. …”

Chinese Resident Preferences for African Elephant Conservation: Choice Experiment by Shuokai Wang, Zhen Cai, Yuxuan Hu, Giuseppe T. Cirella, Yi Xie

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Social Disruption Impairs Predatory Threat Assessment in African Elephants by Graeme Shannon, Line S. Cordes, Rob Slotow, Cynthia Moss, Karen McComb

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Unilateral phacoemulsification in a captive African elephant (Loxodonta africana) by Katherine E.L. Manchip, Ghislaine Sayers, John C.M. Lewis, James W. Carter

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Habituation to Auditory Stimuli by Captive African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) by Sarah E. Goodyear, Bruce A. Schulte

“…This study was conducted with four female African elephants (Loxodonta africana) at the Nashville Zoo in Tennessee. …”
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Pasteurella sp. associated with fatal septicaemia in six African elephants by Chris M. Foggin, Laura E. Rosen, Marijke M. Henton, Angela Buys, Toby Floyd, Andrew D. Turner, Jonathan Tarbin, Antony S. Lloyd, Columbas Chaitezvi, Richard J. Ellis, Helen C. Roberts, Akbar Dastjerdi, Alejandro Nunez, Arnoud H. M. van Vliet, Falko Steinbach

“…Abstract The sudden mortality of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Botswana and Zimbabwe in 2020 provoked considerable public interest and speculation. …”
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The Dynamic Changes of African Elephant Milk Composition over Lactation by Sibusiso Kobeni, Gernot Osthoff, Moses Madende, Arnold Hugo, Lisa Marabini

“…The combined data of milk composition of 14 African elephants over 25 months of lactation are presented. …”
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Age-and tactic-related paternity success in male African elephants by Rasmussen, H, Okello, J, Wittemyer, G, Siegismund, H, Arctander, P, Vollrath, F, Douglas-Hamilton, I

“…Our results on age- and tactic-specific paternity success in male African elephants are the first from a free-ranging population and demonstrate that paternity success increases dramatically with age, with the small number of older bulls in the competitive state of musth being the most successful sires. …”

African Elephant Milk Short Saccharide and Metabolite Composition and Their Changes over Lactation by Gernot Osthoff, Irenie Wiese, Francois Deacon

“…Presented here is the milk non-dedicated metabolite composition of three African elephants. Their lactation times are overlapping and span day one to thirty months. …”
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Behavioural variability among captive African elephants in the use of the trunk while feeding by Maëlle Lefeuvre, Patrick Gouat, Baptiste Mulot, Raphaël Cornette, Emmanuelle Pouydebat

“…The observations of a captive group of African elephants allowed us to create a complete catalogue of trunk movements in feeding activities. …”
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A satellite perspective on the movement decisions of African elephants in relation to nomadic pastoralists by Isla Duporge, Genevieve E. Finerty, Festus Ihwagi, Stephen Lee, Jane Wathika, Zijing Wu, David W. Macdonald, Tiejun Wang

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The sensory ecology of fear: African elephants show aversion to olfactory predator signals by Kim Valenta, Melissa H. Schmitt, Manfred Ayasse, Omer Nevo

“…Based on the fact that African elephants are predated by lions and possess a remarkable sense of smell, we hypothesize that elephants are strongly averse to olfactory signals of lion presence, and that this can be utilized to create invisible barriers which elephants will not cross. …”
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A pachyderm perfume: odour encodes identity and group membership in African elephants by Katharina E. M. von Dürckheim, Louwrens C. Hoffman, Carlos Poblete-Echeverría, Jacqueline M. Bishop, Thomas E. Goodwin, Bruce A. Schulte, Alison Leslie

“…The frequent affiliative behavior of African elephants is posited as a likely mechanism for bacterial transmission. …”
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An adolescent female African elephant (Loxodonta africana) gave birth to an abnormal calf by Yujing Duan, Zhencun Wang, Jiangtao Li, Meng Zhang, Zhenchao Bi

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