Thursday, October 26, 2000 1006 Haring Hall, UC Davis (main campus)

OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS

3:00 pm Registration and Coffee

3:15 pm Welcome, Lynette Hart

3:30 pm Raman Sukumar, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
The Asian elephant: conservation biology of an endangered flagship species

6:00 pm Reception Ben and Lynette Hart's home, 38 College Park (near 8th Street and Eureka), Davis, 756-5345
 
 
 

Friday, October 27, 2000 1006 Haring Hall, UC Davis

8:00 am Registration and Coffee

8:20 am Welcome, Mike McCoy

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

8:30 am Lynette Hart, UC Davis
Introductory Comments

8:40 am Jo-Ann Shelton, UC Santa Barbara
Dancing and dying: the display of elephants in ancient Roman arenas

9:10 am Lynette Hart and Sundar, UC Davis and Jungle Lodges and Resorts, Nagarhole National Park
The mahout-elephant relationship: Ancient and modern versions

9:40 am Break

10:00 am David Anderson and Mary Wood, UC Davis
Web-based search templates on elephants

10:30 am Wendy Koch, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The U.S. regulatory perspective on elephants

11:00 General discussion
 

11:30 am Lunch at University Club
 

BEHAVIOR

12:50 pm Benjamin Hart, UC Davis
Introductory Comments

1:00 pm Thomas E. Goodwin, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas
The secrets in secretions: unraveling elephant mysteries via chemical methodologies

1:30 am L.E.L. Rasmussen, Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton, Oregon
Wild and less-wild elephants: how two modes of olfaction and a multitude of chemical signals influence elephant behavior

2:30 pm Lisa Wingate and Bill Lasley, UC Davis
The significance of musth in bull elephants: is it a reproductive event?

3:00 pm Break

3:20 pm Robert Dale, Nicole Jordan, Sarah Kinnett, Lindsay Beach, and Jenny Noble, Butler University
Behavioral development of elephant calves: review with examples from the Indianapolis Zoo

3:50 pm Benjamin Hart, Lynette Hart, Michael McCoy, and C.R. Sarath, UC Davis and Jungle Lodges and Resorts, Nagarhole National Park
Tool use as a marker of cognitive behavior in elephants

4:20 pm General discussion
 
 

Saturday, October 28, 2000 1006 Haring Hall

8:00 am Coffee

BEHAVIOR

8:30 am Brenda McCowan, UC Davis
Developing a quantitative method for analyzing infrasonic vocalizations in elephants

9:00 am Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Byron Arnason, and Lynette Hart, Stanford University, Tezar Inc., and UC Davis
The seismic propagation of elephant low frequency vocalizations and possible detection mechanisms

9:30 am Kim Luikart, UC Davis
Anatomy of the elephant forefoot

10:00 am Break

10:20 am Patricia Simonet and Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Sierra Nevada College and University of the Pacific
Self-recognition among captive Asian elephants: preliminary results and future studies

10:50 am General discussion

MANAGEMENT

11:10 am Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Stanford University
Introductory comments

11:20 am Laurie J. Gage, David Blasko, and the Elephant Staff, Six Flags Marine World
Husbandry and medical considerations for geriatric elephants

11:50 am Karen Emanuelson, Oakland Zoo
Protected contact and medical care in captive elephants with a case presentation
of Salmonellosis in elephants

12:20 pm General discussion
 

12:40 Lunch
 

ECOLOGY

2:00 pm Mike McCoy, UC Davis
Introductory comments

2:10 pm Susan K. Mikota and Hank Hamatt, Sumatran Elephant Healthcare and Conservation Program
Elephant Conservation Centers of Sumatra

2:40 pm Karen Willett, UC Davis
The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for elephant monitoring and population estimates

3:10 pm Break

3:30 pm George Wittemyer, UC Berkeley
The elephant population of Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

4:00 pm Raman Sukumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Concluding comments on the future of the Asian elephant and its ecology: in culture and in nature

4:20 pm Wrapup discussion