Early life adversities and lifelong health outcomes: A review of the literature on large, social, long-lived nonhuman mammals

AM Dettmer, DE Chusyd - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Social nonhuman animals are powerful models for studying underlying factors related to
lifelong health outcomes following early life adversities (ELAs). ELAs can be linked to …

Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales

MN Weiss, S Ellis, DW Franks, MLK Nielsen, MA Cant… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Parents often sacrifice their own future reproductive success to boost the survival of their
offspring, a phenomenon referred to as parental investment. In several social mammals …

Predation of sea turtle eggs by rats and crabs

HJ Stokes, N Esteban, GC Hays - Marine Biology, 2024 - Springer
Egg predation by invasive and native species may have severe impacts on endangered
species and negatively affect species recovery. We assessed the levels of egg predation …

Social support correlates with glucocorticoid concentrations in wild African elephant orphans

JM Parker, JL Brown, NT Hobbs, NP Boisseau… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Social relationships have physiological impacts. Here, we investigate whether loss of the
mother/offspring relationship has lasting effects on fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) …

Social disruption impairs predatory threat assessment in African elephants

G Shannon, LS Cordes, R Slotow, C Moss, K McComb - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The sharing of social and ecological information is vitally important for
group-living animals, especially among cognitively advanced species (eg, primates …

Social integration of translocated wildlife: a case study of rehabilitated and released elephant calves in northern Kenya

SZ Goldenberg, SM Chege, N Mwangi, I Craig… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Conservation translocations have the potential to strengthen populations of threatened and
endangered species, but facilitating integration of translocated individuals with resident …

Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate

EC Lange, M Griffin, AS Fogel… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Affiliative social bonds are linked to fitness components in many social mammals. However,
despite their importance, little is known about how the tendency to form social bonds …

Identifying the Effects of Social Disruption through Translocation on African Elephants (Loxodonta africana), with Specifics on the Social and Ecological Impacts of …

ME Garaï, VL Boult, HR Zitzer - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The translocation of elephants is a management tool developed in the
1980s during the culling operations at the Kruger National Park, South Africa, to remove …

Physiological plasticity in elephants: highly dynamic glucocorticoids in African and Asian elephants

SS Pokharel, JL Brown - Conservation Physiology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Slowly reproducing and long-lived terrestrial mammals are often more at risk from
challenges that influence fitness and survival. It is, therefore, important to understand how …

Demographic responses of an insular elephant population to removal as a management intervention

RAR Guldemond, CJ Louw, C Maré… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbances that change population structure may evoke transient dynamics that can be
assessed within a demographic resilience framework. Conservation management …