- Ecology
(Above) A typical extended social grouping of forest elephants: A mature female with three dependent offspring accompanied by her oldest daughter (last on the right) and the daughter’s calf. Once they reach their 20s, female forest elephants give birth about…
April 28, 2017 - Peter Wrege on ELP
In the dense forests of Africa, there is a species of forest elephant that has proved very difficult to study. Indeed, even simple questions like how many elephants there are and where they are located have been impossible to answer.
Peter…
April 18, 2017 - Katy Payne on Elephants
Elephants in the wild seem to coordinate their movements even when widely separated. Male elephants seem to be able to find females in estrous even over long distances.
Bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne and her colleagues have found that elephants use low…
April 17, 2017 - April 2017 – Optimism and Vulnerability
I write to all of you this time with particularly conflicted emotions. China is actually meeting some of its stated goals to eliminate nearly all of its domestic ivory trade
April 8, 2017
K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics Elephant Listening Project
