Information
Resources on Elepahnts
The AWIC bibliography, Information Resources on Elephants.
Compiled by Richard C Crawford, D'Anna Jensen, Tim Allen. AWIC Resource
Series, no.18. 2003.
African Elephant Bibliography
This online annotated bibliography was developed
by Mary Rigby specifically to facilitate the work of African elephant
ecology researchers, field staff, and resource managers.
The
African Elephant Database
A collaborative effort of the IUCN/SSC African
Elephant Specialist Group and the UN Environment Programme.
It provides the most complete source of continenetal information on
the numbers and distribution of the African elephant.
An update of the African
Elephant Database, 1996
The Elephant
Information Repository
Zoo
Biology : Special issue on Elephant Biology
Volume 19, Issue 5, 2000
Arnason, Byron T., Lynette A. Hart and Caitlin E. O'Connell-Rodwell.
The properties of geophysical fields and their effects on elephants
and other animals. Journal of Comparative Psychology 2002, 116(2):123-132.
abstract
Hart, Benjamin L., Lynette A. Hart, Michael McCoy, and C.R. Sarath.
Cognitive behaviour in Asian elephants: use and modification of branches
for fly switching. Animal Behaviour 2001, 62:839-847. abstract
Hart, Benjamin L. and Lynette A. Hart. Fly switching by Asian
elephants: tool use to control parasites. Animal Behaviour 1994,
48:35-45. abstract
Hart, Lynette and Sundar. Family traditions for mahouts of
Asian elephants. Anthrozoos 2000, 13(1):34-42. abstract
Hart, L.A. Tourists' effects on drivers of working Asian elephants.
Anthrozoos 1997, 10:47-49. abstract
Hart, Lynette A. The Asian elephants-driver partnership: the
drivers' perspective. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 1994,
40:297-312. abstract
O'Connell-Rodwell, C.E., L.A. Hart, and B.T. Arnason. Exploring
the potential use of seismic waves as a communication channel by elephants
and other large mammals. American Zoologist 2001, 41:1157-1170.
abstract
O'Connell-Rodwell, C.E., B.T. Arnason, and L.A. Hart. Seismic
properties of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) vocalizations
and locomotion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
2000, 108(6):3066-3072. abstract
full-text
(UCD affiliates only)
O'Connell-Rodwell, Caitlin E., Timothy Rodwell, Matthew Rice, and
Lynette A. Hart. Living with the modern conservation paradigm:
can agricultural communities co-exist with elephants? A five-year
case study in East Caprivi, Namibia. Biological Conservation
2000, 93:381-391. abstract
full-text
(UCD affiliates only)
O'Connell, Caitlin, Lynette A. Hart, and Byron T. Arnason.
Comments on "Elephant hearing" [J Acoust Soc Am 104, 1122-1123 (1998)].
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1999, 105(3):2051-2052.
abstract
full-text
(UCD affiliates only)
Reuter, Tom and Sirpa Nummela. Elephant hearing. J Acoust
Soc Am 1998, 104(2)pt.1:1122-1123.
Shelton, Jo-Ann. The display of elephants in ancient Roman
arenas. ISAZ Newsletter 2001, 21:2-6. pdf
Shelton, Jo-Ann. Elephants, Pompey, and the reports of popular
displeasure in 55 BC. Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa : Essays
in honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark. Wauconda, IL:
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 1999. p.231-271.
California Digital
Library SearchLight
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Social Sciences/Humanities databases available to you in your profile.
That is, if you are a UC affiliate, you will have more databases searched
than a unaffiliated public user.
SearchLight will search the available databases all at the same time,
and the search results will include books, journal and encyclopedia
articles, and quality Internet sites.
The following embedded searches allow you to click and initiate a
stored search will automatically be run, retrieving the most current
information. Again, the databases searched will be dependent
upon UC affiliation.
Elephants
Social Sciences/Humanities databases
Elephants
Science/Engineering databases
California Digital
Library Melvyl Catalog
The public may access recent book titles added to the University of
California campus library catalogs using Melyvl:
use su elephants
and date recent
and not su fiction or juvenile or literacy
and lan English and date recent
BIOSIS
Previews
UC affiliates may access citations to recent articles, books, and
book chapters on elephants indexed in BIOSIS:
f su elephant or elephantidae or loxodonta or elephas
or f sx elephants
and not su mammuthus or mastodon
and date current
Zoological
Record
UC Davis affiliates may access citations to recent articles, books,
and book chapters on elephants in Zoological Record:
f su (Elephas maximas or Loxodonta) not (seals
or island or palinurus or curcuilio)
and lan english or summary english
and date current
CABI
Abstracts
UC Davis affiliates may access citations to recent articles and books
on elephants in CAB:
[set dates for 1997-current]
f su elephantidae and not island
