Risk and ethical concerns of hunting male elephant: behavioural and physiological assays of the remaining elephants.

BACKGROUND: Hunting of male African elephants may pose ethical and risk concerns, particularly given their status as a charismatic species of high touristic value, yet which are capable of both killing people and damaging infrastructure. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We quantified the effect of hu...

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Main Authors: Tarryne Burke, Bruce Page, Gus Van Dyk, Josh Millspaugh, Rob Slotow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2426916?pdf=render