Spatio-temporal distribution of injured elephants in Masai Mara and the putative negative and positive roles of the local community.

BACKGROUND: Very few studies have ever focused on the elephants that are wounded or killed as local communities attempt to scare these animals away from their settlements and farms, or on the cases in which local people take revenge after elephants have killed or injured humans. On the other hand, l...

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Main Authors: Domnic Mijele, Vincent Obanda, Patrick Omondi, Ramón C Soriguer, Francis Gakuya, Moses Otiende, Peter Hongo, Samer Alasaad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3728216?pdf=render