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Poaching and militancy : the Asian elephant under siege
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ISBN: 1108583229 1108562833 1108473652 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Asian elephant is an endangered species due to its relentless poaching mainly for ivory. However, unlike the African elephant whose both males and females are tusk bearers, in Asian elephants only males bear tusk. This has resulted in their selective killing and has not only led to an alarming fall in their number but impacted the sex-ratio. This book critically examines this problem and addresses the issue of human-elephant conflict. It studies the four elephant zones of the country with specific focus on Odisha, which is home to a large population of elephants in the central Indian zone. It also ponders on the possibility of the existence of a well-developed network supporting organized poaching and armed militancy, which applies to the central African countries as well.

The living elephants
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ISBN: 1280452951 9786610452958 0198026730 1602561397 9780198026730 019518064X 9780195180640 9781602561397 9781280452956 0195107780 0197701515 0190283084 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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From the ancient origins of the proboscideans to the crisis of the living elephants, this book synthesizes the behavior, ecology and conservation of elephants, while covering also the history of human interactions with elephants. It is useful for biologists, field ecologists, wildlife administrators, historians, and conservationists.

Biology, medicine, and surgery of elephants.
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ISBN: 9780813806761 0813806763 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ames Blackwell Publishing


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Conflict, negotiation, and coexistence : rethinking human-elephant relations in South Asia
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ISBN: 9780199467228 0199467226 0199087571 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Delhi, India Oxford University Press

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"As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires. As marauding crop-raiders, they are despised. As an endangered species, they are cherished. Numerous and often contrasting are the ways in which elephants have been regarded by humans across millennia. Today, with reduced forest cover, human population expansion, and increasing industrialization, interaction between the two species is unavoidable and conflict is not mere happenstance. What, then, is the future of this relationship? In South Asia, human-elephant relationships resonate with cultural significance. From the importance of elephants in ancient texts to the role of mahouts over centuries, from discussions on de-extinction to accounts of intimate companionship, the essays in this book reveal the various dynamics of the relationship between two intelligent social mammals. Eschewing such binaries as human and animal or nature and culture, the essays present elephants as subjective agents who think, feel, and emote. Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence underscores the fact that we cannot understand elephant habitat and behaviour in isolation from the humans who help configure it. Significantly, nor can we understand human political, economic, and social life without the elephants that shape and share the world with them."--Dust cover.


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Elephants and kings
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ISBN: 9780226264226 9780226264363 022626422X 022626436X 022626453X 9780226264530 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago

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Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. The author traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the West - where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity.

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