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Analyses of Diet and Blood Nutrient Concentrations in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) Housed at the NC Zoo.
... Six African elephants (Loxodonta africana) housed at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, NC were used as the subjects of this study from February 2016 to April ...male elephants ranging from 14 to 42 ...
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Play behavior varies by age class in wild African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
... This study aims to compare the types of play behavior in calves, juveniles, and adults, under the current drought conditions in Amboseli, Ol Pejeta, and Samburu, Kenya. We predicted a sig- nificant difference in play ...
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Social Behavior and Personality Patterns of Captive African Elephants, Alison Jeffrey
... captive African elephants also maintain this similar dominance ...between elephants are between a mother and her calf (Horback et ...of elephants in the study herd were in the adult and young ...
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African elephants (Loxodonta africana) recognize visual attention from face and body orientation
... whether African elephants are sensitive to the visual perspective of a human ...attention. Elephants signalled significantly more towards the experimenter when her face was oriented towards them, ...
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Foot pressure distributions during walking in African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
... of elephants, the largest living terrestrial mammals, an understanding of any links between foot mechanics and the development of pathologies is ...in elephants. African elephants (like Asian ...
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African elephants can use human pointing cues to find hidden food
... domesticated. Elephants are a critical taxon for this question: despite their longstanding use by humans they have never been ...captive African elephants, 7 of them significantly as individuals, ...
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Vasectomies of male African elephants as a population management tool: A case study
... captive elephants to suppress musth and can have similar effects on wild elephants (De Nys et ...male elephants without the presence of an older musth male ...
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Non-invasive assessment of the reproductive cycle in free-ranging female African elephants (Loxodonta africana) treated with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) vaccine for inducing anoestrus
... Methods: Between May 2009 - June 2010, luteal activity of 12 elephant cows was monitored non-invasively using an enzyme immunoassay detecting faecal 5alpha-reduced pregnanes (faecal progestagen metabolites, FPM) on a ...
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Why do African elephants (Loxodonta africana) simulate oestrus? : An analysis of longitudinal data
... female African and Asian elephants use chemical indicators of sexual status in order to coordinate sexual encounters ...Female African elephants also display visual signals of their ...
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Evolution of Biodiversity Conservation and Impacts of Laws on the Conservation of African Elephants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
... African elephants are the most prominent among animals killed because of their mostly ivory and meat, to feed the growing demands throughout the world (Lawson and Vines, ...of elephants in ...
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Use of anti-gonadotropin-releasing hormone vaccines in African elephants (Loxodonta africana): A review
... that African elephant bulls (Loxodonta africana) that were 45 years and older sired 50% of all ...of elephants and are associated with excitement and frights (Bertschinger et ...free-ranging African ...
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The locomotor kinematics of Asian and African elephants: changes with speed and size
... for African elephants in the USA and Thailand, 200·Hz for Asian elephants in California, 120·Hz for African elephants in England, and 50·Hz for African elephants in ...
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African Elephants Respond to Distant Playbacks of Low Frequency Conspecific Calls
... A summary of the responses of elephants to the playback of conspecific low-frequency calls, as scored by knowledgeable observers Response behavior Distance 1.2km.. Target group Males..[r] ...
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Mining morphometrics and age from past survey photographs
... in African elephants to understand the size of an individual before tranquilizing it for relocation purposes; however, a formula to esti- mate weight from morphometrics does not yet exist and should be a ...
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... male African elephants have been reported in the literature (Ganswindt et ...zoo elephants (one African and three Asian) affected from digestive tract disease (Figure ...
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... in African elephants compared to their Asian counterparts in European zoos have not been reported ...in African elephants (Freeman et ...captive African elephant females was not ...
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Development and characterization of microsatellite markers in the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)
... Among African elephants, genetic studies have estab- lished that savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana, and forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis, are morphologi- cally distinct [1] and ...
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The movements of limb segments and joints during locomotion in African and Asian elephants
... animals, elephants do not trot or gallop but can move smoothly to faster speeds without markedly changing their kinematics, yet with a shift from vaulting to bouncing ...Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) ...
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... of Bern and Zurich) with no experience in elephant BCS scoring. The picture sets for both species were balanced regarding gender distribution, but not regarding score ranges. The latter was assumed to be practical with ...
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Ecocentrism for the Sustainable Conservation and Management of Elephants in Southern Africa.
... Africa Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) populations exceed the carrying capacity of the ecosystems and pose a threat not only to the ecosystems but also to the whole community of the land ethic (soil, water, plants ...
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