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dc.contributor.authorCampos-Arceiz, Ahimsa
dc.contributor.authorde la Torre, J Antonio
dc.contributor.authorWei, Ke
dc.contributor.authorWu, Xiaoyu O
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Yufei
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Mingxu
dc.contributor.authorChen, Shu
dc.contributor.authorBai, Yang
dc.contributor.authorCorlett, Richard T
dc.contributor.authorChen, Fei
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-06T02:09:59Z
dc.date.available2021-09-06T02:09:59Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1755-263X
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/conl.12836
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/407621
dc.description.abstractIn May–June 2021, wild Asian elephants, Elephas maximus, in Southwest China made global headlines when a herd of 15 trekked north toward the 8-million-person city of Kunming, while another herd of similar size moved south into a popular botanical garden. Both herds used to live in the Mengyang section of the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve (hereafter Mengyang; 22.2oN, 100.9oE), from which both departed in March 2020, moving into areas with no living memory of elephants. For several weeks, the “wandering elephants” drew unprecedented public attention on Asian elephant conservation, while mobilizing an extraordinary amount of resources (800 officers and 270 vehicles at the peak of the monitoring and management operation; Fei Chen pers. obs.). Here, we address the causes and conservation implications of this unusual behavior.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWILEY
dc.relation.ispartofjournalConservation Letters
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3103
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsBiodiversity Conservation
dc.subject.keywordsBiodiversity & Conservation
dc.subject.keywordsAsian elephant
dc.titleThe return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC2 - Articles (Other)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCampos-Arceiz, A; de la Torre, JA; Wei, K; Wu, XO; Zhu, Y; Zhao, M; Chen, S; Bai, Y; Corlett, RT; Chen, F, The return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior, Conservation Letters, 2021
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2021-09-05T22:47:31Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2021 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorWu, Xiaoyu


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