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Socioecology, Acoustic Communication and Demography of Asian Elephants in Sri Lanka
... of Asian elephant population dynamics (Katugaha et ...forest elephants – both African and Asian – in 2004, and found large gaps in knowledge of the locations and sizes of extant ...where Asian ...
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Climate influences thermal balance and water use in African and Asian elephants: physiology can predict drivers of elephant distribution
... which elephants use heat storage remains unclear, but based on recent work in both African (Kinahan et ...and Asian elephants (Weissenböck et ...1970), elephants do have significant rates of ...
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Social interactions in two groups of zoo housed adult female Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) that differ in relatedness
... African elephants (Loxodonta africana) and Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) form small stable groups of related adult females and their immature offspring ...male elephants are known to live ...
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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 ...eight Asian elephants ...
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Non-invasive monitoring of reproduction in Asian elephants ('Elephas maximus') by urinary endocrine analysis
... African elephants and conjugated oestrone in Asian elephants during ...African elephants remained variable and did not change throughout pregnancy compared with pre-conception concentrations ...
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A standardised faecal collection protocol for intestinal helminth egg counts in Asian elephants, Elephas maximus
... in Asian elephants in order to design a species-speci fi c protocol for reliably estimating within- host helminth ...within Asian elephants, with a variety of ap- proaches implemented in the ...
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Causes and Correlates of Calf Mortality in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
... the Asian elephant is listed as endangered and the captive populations form a large proportion of the worldwide remaining Asian elephants [3–4], understanding the factors which influence the ability ...
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Evidence of high EEHV antibody seroprevalence and spatial variation among captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Thailand
... 31 Asian elephants based on PCR ...Thai elephants [16], even though not all elephants infected with EEHV develop ...healthy Asian elephants from trunk swab samples ...healthy ...
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Reproductive cessation and post-reproductive lifespan in Asian elephants and pre-industrial humans
... captive Asian elephants from Myanmar has been collated from elephant log-books and annual extraction reports archived and maintained by the Myanma Timber Enter- ...of elephants enables recording data ...
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Highly Accurate Antibody Assays for Early and Rapid Detection of Tuberculosis in African and Asian Elephants
... in elephants is a reemerging zoonotic disease caused primarily by Mycobacterium ...and Asian elephants from 53 different locations in the United States and ...The elephants were divided into ...
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Early reproductive investment, senescence and lifetime reproductive success in female Asian elephants
... timber elephants are among the few long- lived mammals for which extensive longitudinal data exists to provide a useful comparison in this ...Second, Asian elephants are an iconic species with ...
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Minimum cost of transport in Asian elephants: do we really need a bigger elephant?
... and Asian elephants, along with extinct mammoths (Mammuthus), comprise the family Elephantidae and share common ancestry (Haynes, 1991; Krause et ...All elephants are graviportal species, ...and ...
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Heat storage in Asian elephants during submaximal exercise: behavioral regulation of thermoregulatory constraints on activity in endothermic gigantotherms
... both elephants and endothermic ...in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), and model the thermoregulatory constraints on activity in elephants and a similarly sized migratory dinosaur, ...female ...
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Longitudinal study of Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, indicates intermittent shedding of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 1 during pregnancy
... adult Asian elephants intermit- tently excrete EEHV-1 from oronasal mucosa (Stanton and others 2010, Hardman and others 2011), suggesting that subclinical infection is ...
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Birth seasonality and calf mortality in a large population of Asian elephants
... all elephants have the same working pattern and experience very similar climatic variation; in fact, the work undertaken by elephants is determined by the spe- cific climatic conditions at that time of year ...
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Longitudinal study of Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, indicates intermittent shedding of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 1 during pregnancy
... captive Asian elephants and ...of elephants, targeted monitoring of glucocorticoid levels, detailed behavioural observations and more detailed data on any behavioural indications of stress would add ...
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Evolutionary History and Population Genetic Structure of Asian Elephants in India
... The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), which has shared a long and rich cultural relationship with humans in India, is endangered in the country today, largely because of habitat ...41,400-52,300 Asian ...
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Statistical parametric mapping of the regional distribution and ontogenetic scaling of foot pressures during walking in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)
... Our SPM results show significant inter-individual variability in whole-foot peak pressures between individuals of different body mass. The youngest elephant shows lower peak pressure values than the older ...
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... the Asian elephants housed at the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens (Melbourne Zoo), Victoria, ...cow elephants between 0600 and ...wild Asian and African elephants have been estimated ...
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Elephant cognition in primate perspective
... to elephants, and more likely to accurately measure their mental ...in Asian elephants have been published, with somewhat contradictory ...two elephants: how- ever, he observed no signs of ...
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