Scientific Publications

The extent to which elephants hold behavioural traits in common with human beings is relevant to the ethics of how we treat them.

Models of wildlife population dynamics are crucial for sustainable utilization and management strategies. Fluctuating ecological conditions are often key factors influencing both carrying capacity, mortality and reproductive rates in ungulates.

We use chronologies of stable isotopes measured from elephant (Loxodonta africana) hair to determine migration patterns and seasonal diet changes in elephants in and near Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya.

We obtained fresh dung samples from 202 (133 mother-offspring pairs) savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Samburu, Kenya, and genotyped them at 20 microsatellite loci to assess genotyping success and errors.

The count was conducted under the auspices of Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) jointly funded by NRT, African Wildlife Foundation, Disney Foundation and Save the Elephants.

In this paper, we present a new method for estimating elephant densities by counting elephant wells and dung boli within dry seasonal ooding rivers.

High precision condensation dental silicon, ZetalaborTM, was used to create moulds of the lower jaw molars from 22 immobilized African elephants (Loxodonta africana Blumenback) during radio collaring operations.

Individual based demographic records of the elephants utilizing Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves were collected from 1998 through 2003 and indicate that this elephant population was increasing at an average rate of 4.6% per year.

In this paper, we investigate the formation and function of the multilevelled, fission-fusion social structure in a free-ranging African elephant, Loxodonta africana, population.

Wilderness and Human Communities. Proceedings from the 7th World Wilderness Congress 2004 The African wilderness, for me, isepitomized by elephants, so let us con­sider wilderness from an elephant's point of view.