A Comparison of Social Organization in Asian Elephants and African Savannah Elephants
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Wild Asian elephants show fission-fusion social structure, but their social groups congregate together less frequently compared to social groups of wild African savannah elephants.
“As de Silva and Wittemyer (2012) described, they show fission-fusion, but their social groups congregate together less frequently compared to the social groups of wild African savannah elephants.”
From Characteristics of social relationships in a group of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the elephant village in Thailand (2022) · cites this paper as de Silva and Wittemyer (2012)
Studies of wild Asian elephants have shown average group sizes of 2.38 and 3.07 in Kabini, India, and Uda Walawe, Sri Lanka, respectively.
“Studies of wild Asian elephants have shown average group sizes of 2.38 and 3.07 in Kabini, India, and Uda Walawe and Sri Lanka, respectively (de Silva & Wittemyer, 2012; Nandini et al., 2018).”
From Characteristics of social relationships in a group of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the elephant village in Thailand (2022) · cites this paper as de Silva & Wittemyer, 2012
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- Authors
- de Silva, S., & Wittemyer, G.
- Affiliations
- Save the Elephants (KE)
- ORCID
- Wittemyer, George
- Venue
- International Journal of Primatology
- Published
- 2012-01-27
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1125-1141
- ISSN
- 0164-0291 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-8604
- OpenAlex
- W2086587650
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 7.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- International Journal of Primatology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- Asian elephant, African savannah elephant, social organization, social networks, social connectedness, group size, core groups, phylogenetic comparison, socioecology, Samburu
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