Elephants and algorithms: A review of the current and future role of AI in elephant monitoring

L Brickson, L Zhang, F Vollrath… - Journal of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) present revolutionary opportunities to
enhance our understanding of animal behaviour and conservation strategies. Using …

Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication

L Raviv, SL Jacobson, JM Plotnik, J Bowman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Humans are unique in their sophisticated culture and societal structures, their complex
languages, and their extensive tool use. According to the human self-domestication …

Musth and sexual selection in elephants: A review of signalling properties and potential fitness consequences

CA LaDue, BA Schulte, WK Kiso, EW Freeman - Behaviour, 2021 - brill.com
Sexual selection mediated by multimodal signals is common among polygynous species,
including seasonally breeding mammals. Indirect benefit models provide plausible …

There will be conflict–agricultural landscapes are prime, rather than marginal, habitats for Asian elephants

JA de la Torre, EP Wong, AM Lechner… - Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Misconceptions about species' ecological preferences compromise conservation efforts.
Whenever people and elephants share landscapes, human–elephant conflicts (HEC) occur …

Sundaic elephants prefer habitats on the periphery of protected areas

JA de la Torre, C Cheah, AM Lechner… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of global conservation strategies. PAs, however,
are not equally effective for all threatened taxa, and it is important to understand taxa …

Elephants in the farm–changing temporal and seasonal patterns of human-elephant interactions in a forest-agriculture matrix in the Western Ghats, India

NR Anoop, S Krishnan, T Ganesh - Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Accelerating levels of human-elephant conflicts (HEC) have become a topic of major
concern in conservation efforts of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) …

Understanding the spatial distribution and hot spots of collared Bornean elephants in a multi-use landscape

NK Abram, B Skara, N Othman, M Ancrenaz… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In the Kinabatangan floodplain, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, oil palm and settlements
have reduced and fragmented lowland tropical forests, home to around 200 endangered …

[HTML][HTML] Looking beyond protected areas: Identifying conservation compatible landscapes in agro-forest mosaics in north-eastern India

A Kshettry, S Vaidyanathan, R Sukumar… - Global ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Small-sized protected areas face increasing pressures from developmental activities and
are often rendered inadequate and isolated to conserve wide-ranging species. However, in …

Mortality patterns of Asian elephants in a region of human–elephant conflict

CA LaDue, I Eranda, C Jayasinghe… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many wildlife species suffer from human–wildlife conflict, especially crop‐raiding. Long‐term
analyses of mortality patterns are needed to assess the efficacy of management strategies …

Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: Wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve

SL Jacobson, J Dechanupong, W Horpiencharoen… - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
An animal's capacity for innovation or solving novel problems likely has important
implications for how quickly they can adapt to environmental change. Asian elephants …