Social Disruption Impairs Predatory Threat Assessment in African Elephants

A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation

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The burgeoning reach of animal culture

(2021) Andrew Whiten   SCIENCE

Poaching of African elephants indirectly decreases population growth through lowered orphan survival

(2021) Jenna M. Parker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

(2021) Enrico Di Minin et al.   Nature Communications

Social learning of acoustic anti-predator cues occurs between wild bird species

(2020) Sara C. Keen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) select less fragmented landscapes to connect core habitats in human‐dominated landscapes

(2020) Tawanda W. Gara et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Animal cultures matter for conservation

(2019) Philippa Brakes et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing conservation translocation success by building social functionality in released populations

(2019) Shifra Z. Goldenberg et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Multi-network-based diffusion analysis reveals vertical cultural transmission of sponge tool use within dolphin matrilines

(2019) Sonja Wild et al.   Biology Letters

African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price

(2019) Severin Hauenstein et al.   Nature Communications

Futuristic climate change scenario predicts a shrinking habitat for the African elephant (Loxodonta africana): evidence from Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

(2019) Kudzai Shaun Mpakairi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Social influences on survival and reproduction: Insights from a long-term study of wild baboons

(2018) Susan C. Alberts   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Animal Social Network Theory Can Help Wildlife Conservation

(2017) Lysanne Snijders et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups

(2017) Takao Sasaki et al.   Nature Communications

Orphaned female elephant social bonds reflect lack of access to mature adults

(2017) Shifra Z. Goldenberg et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecological Knowledge, Leadership, and the Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales

(2015) Lauren J.N. Brent et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Elucidating the significance of spatial memory on movement decisions by African savannah elephants using state-space models

(2015) L. Polansky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vocal learning in elephants: neural bases and adaptive context

(2014) Angela S Stoeger et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Illegal killing for ivory drives global decline in African elephants

(2014) G. Wittemyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices

(2014) K. McComb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid Growth Rates of Lion (Panthera leo) Populations in Small, Fenced Reserves in South Africa: A Management Dilemma

(2014) Susan M. Miller et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Understanding spatial differences in African elephant densities and occurrence, a continent-wide analysis

(2013) Willem F. de Boer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effects of social disruption in elephants persist decades after culling

(2013) Graeme Shannon et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Seasonal Diet and Prey Preference of the African Lion in a Waterhole-Driven Semi-Arid Savanna

(2013) Zeke Davidson et al.   PLoS One

Potent Social Learning and Conformity Shape a Wild Primate's Foraging Decisions

(2013) E. van de Waal et al.   SCIENCE

An Asian Elephant Imitates Human Speech

(2012) Angela S. Stoeger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social learning improves survivorship at a life-history transition

(2012) R. P. Manassa et al.   OECOLOGIA

The Influence of Life History Milestones and Association Networks on Crop-Raiding Behavior in Male African Elephants

(2012) Patrick I. Chiyo et al.   PLoS One

Social networks reveal cultural behaviour in tool-using dolphins

(2012) Janet Mann et al.   Nature Communications

Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies

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Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age

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Why Do African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) Simulate Oestrus? An Analysis of Longitudinal Data

(2010) Lucy A. Bates et al.   PLoS One

Lion Predation on Elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana

(2009) R. John Power et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Genetic relatedness and disrupted social structure in a poached population of African elephants

(2009) KATHLEEN GOBUSH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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(2008) C. Foley et al.   Biology Letters

Long-Term Impacts of Poaching on Relatedness, Stress Physiology, and Reproductive Output of Adult Female African Elephants

(2008) K. S. GOBUSH et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES