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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Scientific Reports |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45130-1 |