[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Social behavior impacts parasite infection risk in equid groups

C Joly, LR Martin, A Ortega, FJ Richard - Applied Animal Behaviour …, 2023 - Elsevier
Among the various costs of gregarious behaviors, proximity highly contributes to facilitating
parasite transmission. However, the intensity of parasite infection varies between individuals …

Host species and age‐specific variation on Hepatozoon prevalence and its effect on body condition in two Neotropical crocodiles

A Marzal, W Flores‐Saavedra, S Magallanes… - Wildlife …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many populations of species belonging to the order Crocodilia are threatened due to illegal
trafficking, indiscriminate hunting, and habitat loss and degradation affecting crocodilian …

No strong associations between temperature and the host–parasite interaction in wild stickleback

HMV Granroth‐Wilding, U Candolin - Journal of Fish Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As climate change progresses, thermal stress is expected to alter the way that host
organisms respond to infections by pathogens and parasites, with consequences for the …

Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants

CL Lynsdale, MW Seltmann, NO Mon, HH Aung… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2022 - Springer
Frequent social interactions, proximity to conspecifics, and group density are main drivers of
infections and parasite transmissions. However, recent theoretical and empirical studies …

[PDF][PDF] Gastrointestinal parasites in Asian and African elephants: a systematic review.

Z Qurratul-Saadah, A Che-Amat, SS Syed-Hussain… - 2023 - msptm.org
Ascarids, Trichurids, Strongyloides, Anophlocephalidae, flukes, and Coccidia across
different parts of the world, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka …