A5002552146- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Cambodian History and Society
- Language and cultural evolution
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- dental development and anomalies
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Underwater Acoustics Research
Future Subsea (Norway)
2021-2024
Save the Elephants
2021-2023
Lose the tusks Harvest and poaching of wildlife have increased as human population our technology grown. These pressures now occur on such a scale that they can be considered selective drivers. Campbell-Staton et al . show this phenomenon has occurred in African elephants, which are poached for their ivory, during 20-year Mozambican civil war (see Perspective by Darimont Pelletier). In response to heavy armed forces, elephant populations Gorongosa National Park declined 90%. As recovered...
Abstract As the human footprint expands worldwide, people and wildlife are coming into greater contact, areas of activity may be simultaneously associated with risk reward for animals. To avoid threats while exploiting opportunities, animals adjust their spatiotemporal activity, using anthropogenic disturbance at night when less active. We combined four camera trap datasets from Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park to evaluate effects roads settlement on diel patterns elephants ( Loxodonta...
Trade decisions made by the Convention on International in Endangered Species must place science over politics.
This short paper is intended to alert our colleagues the existence of The Elephant Ethogram: A Library African Behaviour. It describes its purpose, form and scope, appeals for contributions undocumented, rare, novel or cultural Loxodonta africana behaviour. We do not present descriptions behaviours, methodologies, results discussion; these may be found online within Ethogram. Ethogram an ElephantVoices initiative document complex, diverse nuanced repertoire behaviour communication savannah...
Vocalizations often vary in structure within a species, from the individual to population level. Vocal differences among social groups and populations can provide insight into biological processes such as vocal learning evolutionary divergence, with important conservation implications. As learners of concern, intraspecific variation is particular interest elephants. We recorded calls individuals multiple, wild elephant two distinct Kenyan populations. used machine investigate differentiation...
SUMMARY Personal names are a universal feature of human language, yet few analogs exist in other species. While dolphins and parrots address conspecifics by imitating the calls addressee 1,2 , not imitations sounds typically made name’s owner 3 . Labeling objects or individuals without relying on imitation that object individual is key to expressive power language. Thus, if non-imitative name were found species, this could have important implications for our understanding language evolution....
Monitoring populations of endangered species is critical to understanding the threats they face and managing interventions ensure their long-term survival. Individual recognition further allows for essential studies life history, home range, population dynamics, social behaviour, photographic capture-recapture, all which can make conservation more effective. African elephants (Loxodonta Africana, L. cyclotis), keystone species, have been subjects several involving individual recognition,...
Walker and Stiles argue that elephant populations are not declining. The facts say otherwise. Loxodonta africana numbers have plummeted by more than 50% continent-wide in the past 40 years, a reduction now compounded increases range loss, conflict with humans, resurgence poaching ([ 1
Humans have hunted elephants since the Palaeolithic era and, as cunning predators, likely helped shape animals’ sophisticated defensive behaviour. In recent centuries, use of modern weapons in targeted mass killings has resulted signs post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) elephants, including heightened aggression and impaired decision- making. During Mozambique’s long civil war (1977–1992), 90% Gorongosa National Park were killed. More than a quarter century after end hostilities towards...
How does an elephant population recover after being pushed to the brink of extinction? In this and a separate paper on behaviour we present account war-induced collapse post-war recovery population. Mozambique’s 15-year civil war from 1977–1992 had profound impact elephants Gorongosa National Park. Elephant numbers plummeted ~2,200 pre-war <200 impacting structure its families, physical appearance elephants, their genetic make-up (companion study). Using individual registration, study...
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