Wildlife tracking is one of the most frequently employed approaches to monitor and study
wildlife populations. To date, the application of tracking data to applied objectives has …

Creating a healthy, social classroom environment. This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late …

Over the last two millennia, and at an accelerating pace, the African elephant (Loxodonta
spp. Lin.) has been threatened by human activities across its range. 1–7 We investigate the …

The ability to directly monitor animal populations across time and space is a key element of
wildlife conservation and management, but logistically difficult to achieve. Photographic …

Many nonhuman animals have been documented to take an interest in their dead. A few
socially complex and cognitively advanced taxa—primates, cetaceans, and proboscideans …

Land outside of gazetted protected areas is increasingly seen as important to the future of
elephant persistence in Africa. However, other than inferential studies on crop raiding, very …

Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural
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Conflict between humans and wildlife is an increasing problem worldwide due to human
population growth and habitat fragmentation, with growing interest amongst scientists and …

Humans are unique in their sophisticated culture and societal structures, their complex
languages, and their extensive tool use. According to the human self-domestication …

Climate change in Africa is expected to lead to a higher occurrence of severe droughts in
semi-arid and arid ecosystems. Understanding how animal populations react to such events …