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Immediate behavioural responses of humans and Asian elephants in the context of road traffic in southern India

2010-08-01

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With expanding human populations, exponentially increasing motor vehicles, and public roads running through Protected Areas, road traffic is becoming an increasing concern in many countries. While studies have traditionally examined the role of highways in fragmenting and decimating animal populations, we carried out one of the first studies of the immediate behavioural responses, rather than inferring eventual co...

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DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.043

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