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Alexandra Johncola

Alexandra Johncola
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Figure 2.2a. Citizen scientists following the elephants through the...
2a. Behavioural ethogram used in the field.
3a. Plant species consumed by the elephants during the 2019 expedition.
Elephant encounters: Expedition report: Studying Asian elephants in the hills of northern Thailand to increase their welfare and conservation (November 2019)
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  • Oct 2020
Abstract This study was a collaboration between Biosphere Expeditions and Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary (KSES). Direct observation methods were used by citizen scientists to collect three separate data sets on five free-roaming semi-wild Asian elephants simultaneously: activity budgeting (via instantaneous sampling), foraging habits (via all-o...
Figure 1. Map of northern Thailand and study area.
Figure 2. Time elephants spent browsing and grazing during the year and...
Figure 3. Foraging times on different functional groups of plants by...
Foraging Ecology of Semi-Free-Roaming Asian Elephants in Northern Thailand
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  • Oct 2020
We observed the foraging behaviour of five semi-free-roaming elephants in Thailand from December 2016 to October 2019 using all occurrence focal sampling. The elephants consumed 165 species of plants representing 56 families. Dendrocalamus sp. (bamboo), accounted for 40.3% of the elephants’ foraging time. The elephants spent significantly more time...

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