African elephants have expectations about the locations of out-of-sight family members

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-36

  Bates, Lucy A ^a   Sayialel, Katito N ^b   Njiraini, Norah W ^b   Poole, Joyce H ^b   Moss, Cynthia J ^b   Byrne, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Elephants; Individual recognition; Olfaction; Urine

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OLFACTORY CUE; RECOGNITION; URINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; KIN SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SMELLING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; URINE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; FAMILY; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ELEPHANTS; FAMILY; FEMALE; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 40949107787     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0529     Document Type: Article

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