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The socioecology of elephants: analysis of the processes creating multitiered social structures

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Authors: Wittemyer, G., Douglas-Hamilton, I., & Getz, W. M.
Affiliations: Save the Elephants (KE)
University of Pretoria (ZA)
Corresponding author: Wittemyer, G.
ORCID: Wittemyer, G.
Getz, W.M.
Venue: Animal Behaviour
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2005-06
Volume: 69
Issue: 6
Pages: 1357-1371
ISSN: 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.08.018
OpenAlex: W2103227323
Cited by: 591
References: 74
Citations by year: 2026: 18 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 30 · 2012: 31
FWCI: 27.33
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Animal Behaviour (publishedVersion)
UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Science Foundation
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › 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: Loxodonta africana, social structure, fission-fusion societies, social cohesion, matriarchs, age structure, seasonal variation, resource competition, predator defense, social units, socioecology

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