Home range and ranging behaviour of bornean elephant (elephas maximus borneensis) females

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Alfred, Raymond ^a,b,c   Ahmad, Abd Hamid ^c   Payne, Junaidi ^c   Williams, Christy ^d   Ambu, Laurentius Nayan ^b   How, Phua Mui ^c   Goossens, Benoit ^b,e,f  

^a Borneo Species Programme   (Malaysia)

^b SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^d World Wildlife Fund Schweiz   (Switzerland)

^e Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary   (Malaysia)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEVICES; ELEPHANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOREST; HOME RANGE; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES HABITAT; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREE;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84856736302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031400     Document Type: Article

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