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Chemosignalling of musth by individual wild African elephants (Loxodonta africana): implications for conservation and management.

Elephants have extraordinary olfactory receptive equipment, yet this sensory system has been only minimally investigated in wild elephants. We present an in-depth study of urinary chemical signals emitted by individual, behaviourally characterized, wild male African elephants, investigating whether...

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Main Authors: Rasmussen, L E L, Wittemyer, George
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690966/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11958718
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1933
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