Behavioral response of satellite-collared elephants to the tsunami in southern Sri Lanka

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 775-777

  Wikramanayake, Eric ^a   Fernando, Prithiviraj ^b   Leimgruber, Peter ^c  

^a World Wildlife Fund United States ^*  (United States)

^b Centre for Conservation and Research   (Sri Lanka)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian elephants; Elephant movements; Sixth sense; Sri Lanka; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATA SET; ELEPHANT; MEDIA ROLE; SATELLITE; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 33750296004     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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