Home range and seasonal movement of elephants in the Kunene Region, northwestern Namibia

Leggett, Keith E. A.

doi:10.3377/1562-7020(2006)41[17:hrasmo]2.0.co;2

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“…However, as proboscideans are also known to travel long distances, their δ 18 O values may or may not reflect meteoric water from their location of deposition. Today, African elephants can travel more than 500 km during seasonal migrations (Leggett, 2006). Fossil proboscidean specimens from Florida have strontium isotope ratios suggestive of movements of 150 km or more into more upland environments, with some seasonally traveling approximately 250 km to the Appalachian Mountains Koch, 2006, 2007).…”

Section: Climatementioning

confidence: 98%

Effects of Pleistocene climates on local environments and dietary behavior of mammals in Florida

Yann

DeSantis

2014

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Section: Climatementioning

confidence: 98%

Effects of Pleistocene climates on local environments and dietary behavior of mammals in Florida

Yann

DeSantis

2014

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…Most of Namibia's wildlife either lived in the so‐called homelands reserved for black Namibians under apartheid rule, or used these areas as dispersal areas for their main habitats in the national parks (see e.g. Leggett, ). Towards the end of the apartheid era in the 1980s, people working on conservation issues in Namibia started trying to establish new conservation areas.…”

Section: Namibian Community Conservanciesmentioning

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Community‐based wildlife management failing to link conservation and financial viability

Humavindu

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2014

Animal Conservation

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Given the considerable popularity of community-based wildlife management as a conservation tool, it is of interest to assess the long-run sustainability of this policy not only in conservation terms, but also in financial terms. In this paper, we use cost-benefit analysis to study the social and financial sustainability of a large set of community conservancies in Namibia, one of the few countries where community-based wildlife management policies have been in place long enough to assess their long-term viability. We find that, although the social sustainability is generally good, the financial sustainability is problematic -especially for the younger conservancies: there is no real link between conservation achievements and financial success. This calls into question the long-term sustainability of many of these conservancies: if they are unable to generate enough revenue to pay for their running expenditure, they will eventually fail -even if they are successful from a conservation point of view. Similar problems, linked to the way in which external funders have pushed for additional conservancies to be established regardless of financial considerations, are likely to be present in other countries that have implemented such programmes. bs_bs_banner Animal Conservation. Print

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“…Leggett (2006) used GPS collars to track the movements of elephants living in the Namib desert. He recorded one group living in the Namib desert travelling over 600 km in five months, and Viljoen (1989) showed that elephants in the same region visited water holes, some of which were over 60 km apart, approximately every four days.…”

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confidence: 99%

Elephant cognition in primate perspective

Byrne¹,

Bates²,

Moss

2009

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On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from other mammals, such as primates: discrimination learning, memory, spontaneous tool use, etc. However, a range of more naturalistic measures have recently suggested that elephant cognition may be rather different. Wild elephants sub-categorize humans into groups, independently making this classification on the basis of scent or colour. In number discrimination, elephants show no effects of absolute magnitude or relative size disparity in making number judgements. In the social realm, elephants show empathy into the problems faced by others, and give hints of special abilities in cooperation, vocal imitation and perhaps teaching. Field data suggest that the elephant's vaunted reputation for memory may have a factual basis, in two ways. Elephants' ability to remember large-scale space over long periods suggests good cognitive mapping skills. Elephants' skill in keeping track of the current locations of many family members implies that working memory may be unusually developed, consistent with the laboratory finding that their quantity judgements do not show the usual magnitude effects.

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Home range and seasonal movement of elephants in the Kunene Region, northwestern Namibia

Cited by 43 publications

References 24 publications

Effects of Pleistocene climates on local environments and dietary behavior of mammals in Florida

Effects of Pleistocene climates on local environments and dietary behavior of mammals in Florida

Community‐based wildlife management failing to link conservation and financial viability

Elephant cognition in primate perspective

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