Day and night camera trap videos are effective for identifying individual wild Asian elephants.

ABSTRACT: Regular monitoring of wild animal populations through the collection of behavioral and demographic data is critical for the conservation of endangered species. Identifying individual Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), for example, can contribute to our understanding of their social dynamics and foraging behavior, as well as to human-elephant conflict mitigation strategies that account for the behavior of specific individuals involved in the conflict. Wild elephants can be distinguished using a variety of different morphological traits-e.g., variations in ear and tail morphology, body scars and tumors, and tusk presence, shape, and length-with previous studies identifying elephants via direct observation or photographs taken from vehicles. When elephants live in dense f

SUBMITTER: Montero-De La Torre S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10064994 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature