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Effects of poaching on bull mating success in a free ranging African elephant (Loxodonta africana) population in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

2008-04-01

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Poaching and habitat encroachment for human settlement are the two major factors that caused contraction of elephant populations in Africa. While the effects of poaching on many aspects of elephant social systems have been studied, the impacts on mating patterns are not yet understood and such information is still lacking in most African countries. In this study, we used elephant specific-microsatellite DNA to gen...

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Literature Corpus work: 23ef2950-beb2-5525-94f4-d72258563ce4
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9332-0

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