Month: November 2017

Month: November 2017

Orphaned Female Elephant Social Bonds Reflect Lack of Access to Mature Adults

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Mara Elephant Project wanted to share an interesting new study that was just released on Nature.com by two of our partner Save The Elephants scholars, Shifra Z. Goldenberg and George Wittemyer. Orphaned Female Elephant Social Bonds Reflect Lack of Access to Mature Adults This study focused on compensatory social behavior in nonhuman animals following maternal loss and looked into understanding how orphans allocate bonding to reconstruct their social networks. This is especially important … Continue reading.

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