Old males vital to elephant societies
Old male elephants play a key role in leading all-male groups, new research suggests.
Old male elephants play a key role in leading all-male groups, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2020
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Elephant trails may lead the way to better conservation approaches.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2020
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Sri Lanka will ban the import of most plastic products in a bid to protect wild elephants and deer that die eating the waste, the environment minister announced Friday.
Ecology
Aug 28, 2020
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The Warsaw zoo said Wednesday it will start giving its elephants medical marijuana as part of a ground-breaking pilot project to test how it reduces their stress levels.
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2020
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The behaviors implied in the manipulation of food items by African elephants were correlated with the shape and size of these items. Despite a common ethogram, all the elephants showed different frequencies in the use of ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 18, 2020
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A baby African elephant whose birth was live-streamed by a safari park in Mexico has been named Zoom after the video chat app made popular by the coronavirus pandemic.
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2020
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Sri Lanka's coronavirus lockdown has helped reduce the death toll from clashes between elephants and humans, conservationists have said.
Ecology
Aug 12, 2020
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Singapore began destroying nine tonnes of seized ivory Tuesday, the largest such action globally in recent years, including contraband tusks that came from more than 300 African elephants.
Ecology
Aug 11, 2020
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Elephants are known for their complex cognitive abilities, such as memory, problem-solving and tool use, and for their complex social behaviors. A new research article in the journal Animal Behavior and Cognition describes ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 4, 2020
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Late spring and early summer in California bring thousands of marine mammals to the state's beaches, as groups of California sea lions, elephant seals and harbor seals give birth along the shore. Visitors to places such as ...
Environment
Jul 17, 2020
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