Elephants under human care: Fertility, birth rate, infant mortality and survivorship

Elephants: Ecology, Behavior and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-47

  Saragusty, Joseph ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

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