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Wanderers of Rajaji:Are Elephants Learning New Lessons in the Changing Environment?


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1 Conservation & Survey Division, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi 110 003, India
 

Factors which influence learning of behaviour in wild animal populations are important for understanding the responses of species to changing environments and for their conservation. An important and often neglected aspect of behavioural ecology concerns the ability of animal populations and individuals to respond to changes in their immediate environment, both on long- and short-term basis.
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Ritesh Joshi
Conservation & Survey Division, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi 110 003, India

Abstract


Factors which influence learning of behaviour in wild animal populations are important for understanding the responses of species to changing environments and for their conservation. An important and often neglected aspect of behavioural ecology concerns the ability of animal populations and individuals to respond to changes in their immediate environment, both on long- and short-term basis.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi09%2F1808-1811