T. N. C. Vidya

The study finds that calf presence in Asian elephant groups increases group size and social associations, suggesting calves promote sociality through collective defense and allomaternal care.

The paper examines social relationships between young Asian elephant calves and conspecific females, finding that calves form differentiated relationships with escorts who provide allomaternal care, while other females rarely interact with calves.

This study examines dominance relationships in female Asian elephant clans, finding a weakly structured age-based dominance order compared to African savannah elephants.

This study examines male associations in Asian elephants, finding that older males form more frequent all-male groups with age-peers and that social learning from older males is less common compared to African savannah elephants.

This study shows NDVI is not reliable for estimating forage abundance for Asian elephants in tropical forests due to non-food vegetation dominance and canopy cover effects.

The paper compares social structures of female Asian and African elephants, finding that group size affects network analysis results, masking underlying similarities.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of visual cover estimation for assessing graminoid abundance in forests and grasslands, finding it correlates well with biomass and diversity metrics.