Elephant tourism in Thailand: A review of animal welfare practices and needs

P Bansiddhi, JL Brown, C Thitaram… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Elephant tourism in Thailand has developed into an important socio-economic factor after a
logging ban initiated in 1989 resulted in thousands of out-of-work elephants. However, the …

Scaling from individual physiological measures to population-level demographic change: case studies and future directions for conservation management

JN Bergman, JR Bennett, AD Binley, SJ Cooke… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Loss of biodiversity is a leading conservation issue and, accordingly, a central topic in
ecological research is to predict how organisms respond to natural and anthropogenic …

[图书][B] Colonizing animals

J Saha - 2021 - books.google.com
Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of
British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha …

Analysis of body condition indices reveals different ecotypes of the Antillean manatee

DN Castelblanco-Martínez, DH Slone… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Assessing the body condition of wild animals is necessary to monitor the health of the
population and is critical to defining a framework for conservation actions. Body condition …

Individual and environmental risk factors associated with fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-housed Asian and African elephants

JL Brown, K Carlstead, JD Bray, D Dickey, C Farin… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A recent large-scale welfare study in North America involving 106 Asian (Elephas maximus)
and 131 African (Loxodonta africana) elephants at 64 accredited facilities identified links (ie …

Management factors affecting adrenal glucocorticoid activity of tourist camp elephants in Thailand and implications for elephant welfare

P Bansiddhi, JL Brown, J Khonmee, T Norkaew… - PLOS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Elephant camps are among the most popular destinations in Thailand for tourists from many
countries. A wide range of management strategies are used by these camps, which can …

Effects of physiological changes and social life events on adrenal glucocorticoid activity in female zoo-housed Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

SS Glaeser, KL Edwards, N Wielebnowski, JL Brown - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Ensuring good health and welfare is an increasingly important consideration for
conservation of endangered species and includes breeding of individuals managed under …

Elephants born in the high stress season have faster reproductive ageing

HS Mumby, KU Mar, AD Hayward, W Htut… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Senescent declines in reproduction and survival are found across the tree of life, but little is
known of the factors causing individual variation in reproductive ageing rates. One …

Assessment of season-dependent body condition scores in relation to faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in free-ranging Asian elephants

SS Pokharel, PB Seshagiri… - Conservation …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We studied seasonal and annual changes in visual body condition scores (BCSs), and
assessed how these scores were related to levels of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites …

Body condition and adrenal glucocorticoid activity affects metabolic marker and lipid profiles in captive female elephants in Thailand

T Norkaew, JL Brown, P Bansiddhi, C Somgird… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Studies in western zoo elephants have found relationships between body condition and
physiological function, and identified mitigating management strategies to optimize health …