Elephants

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • African elephants and contraception. 
  • Analysis of viral microRNA expression by elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 1. 
  • Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants. 
  • Congenital Heart Disease Epidemiology in the United States: Blindly Feeling for the Charging Elephant. 
  • Conservation. Elephants, ivory, and trade. 
  • Do topography and fruit presence influence occurrence and intensity of crop-raiding by forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)? 
  • Ecological consequences of forest elephant declines for Afrotropical forests. 
  • Fine-scale population genetic structure in a fission-fusion society. 
  • Forest elephant movement and habitat use in a tropical forest-grassland mosaic in Gabon. 
  • HEREDITARY FACTOR VII DEFICIENCY IN THE ASIAN ELEPHANT (ELEPHAS MAXIMUS) CAUSED BY A F7 MISSENSE MUTATION. 
  • How Bees Deter Elephants: Beehive Trials with Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) in Gabon. 
  • Major histocompatibility complex variation and evolution at a single, expressed DQA locus in two genera of elephants. 
  • Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants. 
  • Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values. 
  • The Complex Links Between Governance and Biodiversity 
  • The influence of life history milestones and association networks on crop-raiding behavior in male African elephants. 
  • The shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India. 
  • The ties that bind: genetic relatedness predicts the fission and fusion of social groups in wild African elephants. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Poulsen, John R., Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Roth, V. Louise, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology