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Social structure differs in Asian and African elephants, find researchers
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Asian elephants, in general, do not move in mixed groups consisting of males and females.
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Asian elephants, in general, do not move in mixed groups consisting of males and females. In the picture, young male elephants are seen associating in the absence of female elephants.
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Asian elephants, in general, do not move in mixed groups consisting of males and females.
Despite the fact that they occupy similar ecological niches, the social structure of Asian elephants differs from that of their African savannah counterparts. This is perhaps due to their differing habitats. It is important to understand this and grasp the diversity of strategies that these endangered species might be adopting to survive.
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New Delhi: As human-elephant conflicts increase with time and expanding human range, understanding social behaviour becomes crucial to the conservation and management of the highly social and endangered Asian elephant.
The Asian elephant is a charismatic species with a long history of co-existence with humans. Yet works on male societies of wild elephants based on long-term observations are rare. To fill this gap, researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous Institute of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, studied associations of male Asian elephants by collecting and analysing data on behaviour of identified nonmusth wild Asian elephants of Nagarahole and Bandipur National Parks.