Leadership in elephants: The adaptive value of age

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1722, 2011, Pages 3270-3276

  McComb, Karen ^a   Shannon, Graeme ^a,d   Durant, Sarah M ^b   Sayialel, Katito ^c   Slotow, Rob ^d   Poole, Joyce ^c,e   Moss, Cynthia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e Elephant Voices   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; Leadership; Longevity; Loxodonta africana; Playback experiment; Social mammals

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ELEPHANT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FELID; FITNESS; LEADERSHIP; LONGEVITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80053184187     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0168     Document Type: Article

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