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Captive male Asian elephants can live together peacefully and with little stress, if introduced slowly and carefully, per Laos case study of 8 unrelated males



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Socializing a group of male Asian elephants in a semi-captive facility in Lao PDR 

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Two elephants expressing affiliative behaviors at the Elephant Conservation Center’s forest.  

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Credit: Anabel López Pérez, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)




Captive male Asian elephants can live together peacefully and with little stress, if introduced slowly and carefully, per Laos case study of 8 unrelated males

Article URLhttps://plos.io/4oYWIwt

Article title: Socializing a group of male Asian elephants in a semi-captive facility in Lao PDR

Author countries: Thailand, Lao P.D.R., U.S.

Funding: This research was supported by graduated school Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Grant number;2562), Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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