Elephant corridors in India: lessons for other elephant range countries

Other Post Employment Benefits-the Other Elephant in the Room

The governments of the fifty states of the United States have made promises to past and present employees regarding retirement benefits-predominately pensions and healthcare coverage. The issues surrounding the pension obligations made to these employees have been well examined but the obligations due to promises of healthcare coverage have not received as much attention. There is great varianc...

Elephant cognition

Miklosi to go into further detail on a particular point without interrupting the main text. The break out boxes are easy to locate and read as you are using this book as a reference guide on dog research. Overall, with the broad coverage of topics and the organization of the book, it will interest and be accessible to expert and dog lover alike. To start, one of the book's highlights has to be ...

Elephant in the Room

Asian Elephant T Cell Responses to Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus

Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV) can cause lethal hemorrhagic disease in juvenile Asian elephants, an endangered species. One hypothesis to explain this vulnerability of some juvenile elephants is that they fail to mount an effective T cell response to the virus. To our knowledge, there have been no studies of Asian elephant T cell responses to EEHV. To address this deficiency, we v...

Problem-Elephant Translocation: Translocating the Problem and the Elephant?

Human-elephant conflict (HEC) threatens the survival of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Translocating "problem-elephants" is an important HEC mitigation and elephant conservation strategy across elephant range, with hundreds translocated annually. In the first comprehensive assessment of elephant translocation, we monitored 16 translocations in Sri Lanka with GPS collars. All tran...