Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants

Wild Asian elephants have been and continue to be captured to supplement captive populations. Here, Lahdenperä et al. use records from Myanmar timber elephants to show that wild-caught elephants have increased mortality compared to captive-born elephants for many years after capture.

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Autores principales: Mirkka Lahdenperä, Khyne U. Mar, Alexandre Courtiol, Virpi Lummaa
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7bf95a1c7f16431a98c71169189e3a4d2021-12-02T15:33:43ZDifferences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants10.1038/s41467-018-05515-82041-1723https://doaj.org/article/7bf95a1c7f16431a98c71169189e3a4d2018-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05515-8https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Wild Asian elephants have been and continue to be captured to supplement captive populations. Here, Lahdenperä et al. use records from Myanmar timber elephants to show that wild-caught elephants have increased mortality compared to captive-born elephants for many years after capture.Mirkka LahdenperäKhyne U. MarAlexandre CourtiolVirpi LummaaNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)
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Khyne U. Mar
Alexandre Courtiol
Virpi Lummaa
Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants
description Wild Asian elephants have been and continue to be captured to supplement captive populations. Here, Lahdenperä et al. use records from Myanmar timber elephants to show that wild-caught elephants have increased mortality compared to captive-born elephants for many years after capture.
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Khyne U. Mar
Alexandre Courtiol
Virpi Lummaa
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title Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants
title_short Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants
title_full Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants
title_fullStr Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants
title_full_unstemmed Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants
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