All-Male Groups in Asian Elephants: A Novel, Adaptive Social Strategy in Increasingly Anthropogenic Landscapes of Southern India

Abstract Male Asian elephants are known to adopt a high-risk high-gain foraging strategy by venturing into agricultural areas and feeding on nutritious crops in order to improve their reproductive fitness. We hypothesised that the high risks to survival posed by increasingly urbanising and often unp...

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Main Authors: Nishant Srinivasaiah, Vinod Kumar, Srinivas Vaidyanathan, Raman Sukumar, Anindya Sinha
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7ac36076890a4f6b8c6de74448e6951d
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