Tag: Elephants
Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds...
Shermin de Silva, University of California, San Diego
Despite their iconic status and long association with humans, Asian elephants...
With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble...
Evan Fricke, Rice University; Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University; Haldre Rogers, Iowa State University, and Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
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Africa’s 2 elephant species are both endangered, due to poaching and...
George Wittemyer, Colorado State University
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Humans have been over-exploiting African elephants for centuries....
The neural cruelty of captivity: Keeping large mammals in zoos and...
Bob Jacobs, Colorado College
Hanako, a female Asian elephant, lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Japan’s Inokashira Park Zoo for more than 60 years,...
What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience...
Jessica Pierce, University of Colorado Denver
For many weeks, news of a mother orca carrying her dead infant through the icy waters of the Salish...
What elephants’ unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
Bob Jacobs, Colorado College
Conservationists have designated August 12 as World Elephant Day to raise awareness about conserving these majestic animals. Elephants have many engaging...
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The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
