Publications by authors named "Jodie L Berezin"
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- Male African elephants have intricate social networks, and this study analyzed the consistency of their individual personalities across various situations.
- By observing 34 male elephants over five years at a waterhole, researchers identified five behaviors (like aggression and affiliation) that were stable at the individual level and influenced by social contexts, particularly the presence of younger and dominant males.
- The study concluded that younger males tend to show more similar personalities compared to older males, suggesting that while male elephants have distinct character traits, these traits can adapt based on their social surroundings.
Group-living animals engage in coordinated vocalizations to depart from a location as a group, and often, to come to a consensus about the direction of movement. Here, we document for the first time, the use of coordinated vocalizations, the "let's go" rumble, in wild male African elephant group departures from a waterhole. We recorded vocalizations and collected behavioral data as known individuals engaged in these vocal bouts during June-July field seasons in 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2017 at Mushara waterhole within Etosha National Park, Namibia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElephants have a unique auditory system that is larger than any other terrestrial mammal. To quantify the impact of larger middle ear (ME) structures, we measured 3D ossicular motion and ME sound transmission in cadaveric temporal bones from both African and Asian elephants in response to air-conducted (AC) tonal pressure stimuli presented in the ear canal (PEC). Results were compared to similar measurements in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElephants have a unique auditory system that is larger than any other terrestrial mammal. To quantify the impact of larger middle ear (ME) structures, we measured 3D ossicular motion and ME sound transmission in cadaveric temporal bones from both African and Asian elephants in response to air-conducted (AC) tonal pressure stimuli presented in the ear canal (P ). Results were compared to similar measurements in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDriven by reproductive motives, male African elephants ( in musth often expand their home ranges to locate estrous females. This extended range, coupled with heightened aggression often observed in musth males, can be particularly problematic in regions where human-modified landscapes and elephant territories increasingly overlap. Several mitigation tools have been tested to resolve a wide range of human-elephant conflicts with varying degrees of success due to geographical disparities and habituation.
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