Recent News

Disney Grant
Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund funds project on the interaction between elephants and bees

Trunks, tracks and spiders’ webs
Oxford tracking featured in an article in 'Oxford Today', Hilary term issue 2007.

Publications

2007

Wittemyer G, Henrik Barner Rasmussen HB, Douglas-Hamilton I 2007 Breeding phenology in relation to NDVI variability in free-ranging African elephant. Ecography 30: 42-50

Rasmussen HB, Okello JBA, Wittemyer G, Siegismund HR, Arctander P, Vollrath F, Douglas-Hamilton I. 2007 Age- and tactic-related paternity success in male African elephants. Behavioural Ecology (in press)

Wittemyer G, Getz WM, Vollrath F, and Douglas-Hamilton I 2007 Social dominance, seasonal movements, and spatial segregation in African elephants: A contribution to conservation behavior. Behavioural Ecolology and Sociobiology. (in press)

2006

Wall J, Douglas-Hamilton I, Vollrath F, 2006 Elephants avoid costy mountaineering . Current Biology 16; 527-529

Vollrath F, Douglas-Hamilton I, 2002 African bees to control African elephants. Naturwissenschaften 89; 508-511

Douglas-Hamilton I, Bhalla S, Wittemyer G, Vollrath F 2006 Behavioural reactions of elephants towards a dying and deceased matriarch. Appl. Animal Behav. Science 100; 87-102

Rasmussen, H.B., Wittemyer, G and Douglas-Hamilton, I., 2006 Predicting Time Specific Changes in Demographic Processes using Remote Sensing Data J. Appl. Ecol.43 , 366–376

Rasmussen H.B.; Kahindi, O. ; Vollrath, F. ; Douglas-Hamilton, I. (2006). Estimating elephant densities from wells and droppings in dried out riverbeds. Afr. J. Ecol. Vol. 43; 312-315

Cerling, T.E., Wittemyer, G., Rasmussen, H.B. Vollrath, F., Cerling, C.E., Robinson, T.J., and Douglas-Hamilton, I., 2006 Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol 103; 371-373

2005

Rasmussen, H.B. ; Wittemyer, G.; Douglas-Hamilton, I. (2005). Estimating age of immobilized elephants from teeth impressions using dental silicon. Afr. J. Ecol. Vol 43; 215–219

Okello, J.; Wittemyer, G.; Rasmussen, H.B.; Douglas-Hamilton, I.; Nyakaana, P.; Arctander, P.; Siegismund, H.R: 2005 Non-invasive Genotyping and Mendelian Analysis of Microsatellites in African Savannah Elephants. Journal of Heredity. 96; 679–687

Douglas-Hamilton, I., Krink, T., Vollrath, F., 2005. Movements and corridors of African elephants in relation to protected areas. Naturwissenschaften 92; 158–163

Wittemyer G., Daballen, D., Rasmussen H., Kahindi, O., Douglas-Hamilton, I., 2005. Demographic status of elephants in the Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya. Afr. J. Ecol. 43; 44–47.

Wittemyer, G., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Getz, W.M., 2005. The socioecology of elephants: analysis of the processes creating multitiered social structures. Anim. Behav. 69; 1357–1371.

Ganswindt, A.; Rasmussen, H.B.; Heistermann, M. ; Hodges, J.K. (2005). The sexually active states of free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana): Defining musth and non-musth using endocrinology, physical signals, and behavior. Horm. Behav.47; 83-91