Salerno, Jonathan Bailey, Karen Gaughan, Andrea E Stevens, Forrest R Hilton, Tom Cassidy, Lin Drake, Michael D Pricope, Narcisa G Hartter, Joel
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Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
人类与野生动物之间相互作用造成的负面影响是全球最紧迫的保护挑战之一。在小农畜牧和作物种植地区, 与野生动物的相互作用可能损害人类福祉, 并引发人类对野生动物的负面情绪和报复行为, 进而破坏保护目标。人类和野生动物在土地利用重叠时难免产生相应影响, 但在量化野生动物对人类生计的直接影响成本时仍缺乏大尺度的人类数据。我们在南非一个具有全球重要意义的野生动物保护的景观中, 利用人类福祉和粮食安全的基本指标定量分析了人类与野生动物一起生活的成本, 我们还分析了现有生计策略在防止野生动物 (主要是大象) 掠夺农作物中是否能对一些家庭起到缓冲作用。我们基于多个国家的家庭数据 (n = 711) 进行了贝叶斯多层统计模型估计, 并结合参与式土地利用绘图的空间数据对模型结果做出解释。结果发现, 野生动物对农...
Paudel, Sarad Sreevatsan, Srinand
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Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a devastating disease in elephants caused by either Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. bovis. It is an ancient disease, and TB in elephants was first reported over two millennia ago in Sri Lanka. Outbreaks of TB worldwide, in captive and free-ranging elephant populations, have been recorded. Interspecies transmission of TB among ...
García-Hernández, Benjamín
Hasta la colonización de África, ha estado vigente la opinión de que los elefantes indios de Antíoco III, que derrotaron a los libios de Ptolomeo IV en la batalla de Rafia (217 a. C.) descrita por Polibio, eran de tamaño superior. Tito Livio lo confirma a propósito de la batalla de Magnesia (190 a. C.). Sin embargo, el empleo de μέγεθος sugiere un ...
Goosen, Wynand J. Kerr, Tanya J. Kleynhans, Léanie Buss, Peter Cooper, David Warren, Robin M. van Helden, Paul D. Schröder, Björn Parsons, Sven D. C. Miller, Michele A.
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BMC Veterinary Research
BackgroundBovine tuberculosis and tuberculosis are chronic infectious diseases caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex members, Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, respectively. Infection with M. bovis and M. tuberculosis have significant implications for wildlife species management, public health, veterinary disease contro...
Rossman, Zoë T. Padfield, Clare Young, Debbie Hart, Benjamin L. Hart, Lynette A.
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science
While spontaneous yawning is common across all vertebrate classes, contagious yawning is less common and has been observed only in a few species of social animals. Interspecific contagious yawning in response to yawning by humans has been observed only by chimpanzees and dogs. After confirming additional occurrences of intraspecific contagious yawn...
Rossman, Zoë T Padfield, Clare Young, Debbie Hart, Benjamin L Hart, Lynette A
While spontaneous yawning is common across all vertebrate classes, contagious yawning is less common and has been observed only in a few species of social animals. Interspecific contagious yawning in response to yawning by humans has been observed only by chimpanzees and dogs. After confirming additional occurrences of intraspecific contagious yawn...
Black, Caitlin E. Mumby, Hannah S. Henley, Michelle D.
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Frontiers in Zoology
BackgroundResearchers often document wildlife surveys using images. These images contain data that can be used to understand alterative research objectives, even years after they were originally captured. We have developed a method to measure age and morphology (body size measurements and tusk size) from survey image databases and future surveys, w...
Presotto, Andrea Fayrer-Hosken, Richard Curry, Caitlin Madden, Marguerite
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Animal Cognition
Strategies of navigation have been shown to play a critical role when animals revisit resource sites across large home ranges. The habitual route system appears to be a sufficient strategy for animals to navigate while avoiding the cognitive cost of traveling using the Euclidean map. We hypothesize that wild elephants travel more frequently using h...
Kinuthia, Julius Harper, Cindy Muya, Shadrack Kimwele, Charles Alakonya, Amos Muigai, Anne Gakuya, Francis Mwaniki, Mercy Gatebe, Erastus
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Conservation Genetics Resources
The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) population in Kenya is declining at an alarming rate due to habitat destruction, human-elephant conflicts and the current escalation of poaching for ivory. This study established a standard protocol for forensic analysis of L. africana and their products such as ivory. Three multiplex PCR panels consisting ...
Mondol, Samrat Mailand, Celia R. Wasser, Samuel K.
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Conservation Genetics
Poaching and habitat loss has caused a massive decline in the number and range of African elephants over the past few decades, with the greatest post ivory ban losses occurring since 2006. Poaching targets the largest individuals for their greater tusk sizes. This should also bias poaching towards males. We hypothesized that elephant sex ratios fro...
