Some species of male land-based mammals can vary vocal sounds to exaggerate their body sizes to attract mates.
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Asian elephants typically live in small, flexible, social groups centered around females and calves while adult males roam independently. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2011
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Malaysia has seized elephant tusks and ivory handicrafts worth an estimated four million ringgit ($1.3 million) en route from Kenya to Cambodia, a customs official said Tuesday.
Ecology
Dec 13, 2011
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Findings from a scientific historian at the University of Lincoln have helped experts at the Natural History Museum to designate an animal painted by Rembrandt as the new 'type specimen' for the Asian elephant species.
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2013
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Recent genomic research has prompted a petition that calls for the reclassification of African elephants from one threatened species to two endangered species to protect both from imminent extinction.
Ecology
Jun 15, 2015
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For the first time, scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar conducted a detailed comparison of the mechanical properties of mammoth ...
Archaeology
Feb 28, 2019
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University of Queensland researchers have found African elephants use their acute sense of smell as a form of communication.
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Apr 3, 2023
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As grasses grew more common in Africa, most major mammal groups tried grazing on them at times during the past 4 million years, but some of the animals went extinct or switched back to browsing on trees and shrubs, according ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The value of mature female experience may be something that human society needs to be reminded of from time to time but elephants, it seems, have good reason never to forget.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2011
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An intricate network of minuscule crevices adorns the skin surface of the African bush elephant. By retaining water and mud, these micrometer-wide channels greatly help elephants in regulating their body temperature and protecting ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2018
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