Stress Response of Working African Elephants to Transportation and Safari Adventures

Of Ants and Elephants: Measuring Student Appreciation for Insects and Charismatic Megafauna During an African Safari

Physiological Stress and Refuge Behavior by African Elephants

Physiological stress responses allow individuals to adapt to changes in their status or surroundings, but chronic exposure to stressors could have detrimental effects. Increased stress hormone secretion leads to short-term escape behavior; however, no studies have assessed the potential of longer-term escape behavior, when individuals are in a chronic physiological state. Such refuge behavior i...

A safari of South African organizations

Intranets hold great promise as `̀ organizational Internets'' to allow information sharing and collaboration across departments, functions and different information systems within an organization. Yet not much is known about how to implement intranets. We adapt a taxonomy based on institutional theory and distinguish six broad diffusion drivers that might be considered to sustain the implementat...

Social networks in African elephants

Some of the most highly social animals-including elephants, and some primates, cetaceans, and social carnivores-live in “fission-fusion” societies where social groups divide and re-form over the course of hours, days, or weeks. These societies are thought to respond adaptively to changes in the physical and social environment, and are thus ideal for testing hypotheses about the evolutionary for...

Response of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) to Seasonal Changes in Rainfall

The factors that trigger sudden, seasonal movements of elephants are uncertain. We hypothesized that savannah elephant movements at the end of the dry season may be a response to their detection of distant thunderstorms. Nine elephants carrying Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers were tracked over seven years in the extremely dry and rugged region of northwestern Namibia. The transition d...