Behavioural reactions of elephants towards a dying and deceased matriarch

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 87-102

  Douglas Hamilton, Iain ^a   Bhalla, Shivani ^a   Wittemyer, George ^a,b   Vollrath, Fritz ^a,c  

^a SAVE THE ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association analysis; Compassion; Radio tracking; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COGNITION; DATA; ELEPHANT; EUSOCIALITY; GPS; KIN RECOGNITION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TRACKING;

ELEPHANTIDAE;

EID: 33747887697     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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