Conservation management options for southern African elephants range from local to
regional scales. Here we review these options and argue in favour of actions that will deal …

An hypothesis predicting which woody species selected by elephant are at risk of local
extirpation is based on an understanding of elephant digestive physiology, foraging ecology …

The province of Jujuy lies in the northwestern corner of Argentina, abutting Chile and Bolivia
in the west and northeast, and ranging from 500 to 6,000 m in elevation. As a result of its …

The sudden mortality of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Botswana and Zimbabwe
in 2020 provoked considerable public interest and speculation. Poaching and malicious …

The IUCN Redlist considers the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) to be
“vulnerable” despite it numbering in the 100,000 s and having a large geographical range …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Paleontological fieldwork between 1998–2005 by the Eyasi Plateau Expedition at Laetoli
and nearby sites produced a large collection of proboscidean fossils from the early to mid …

How to respond to growing elephant numbers in the Kruger National Park and elsewhere in
southern Africa continues to be a contentious issue. In contrast to the public perception …

Summary 1 An emerging perspective in the study of density dependence is the importance
of the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of resources. Although this is well understood in …

As African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) become increasingly confined to smaller
fragmented landscapes, concern over their potential detrimental impacts on vegetation and …