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Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHV) are herpesviruses that infect elephants. They can cause a highly fatal hemorrhagic disease when transmitted to young Asian elephants. In African elephants, related forms of these viruses, which have been identified in wild populations, are generally benign, occasionally surfacing to cause small ...
In captivity, providing elephants with a social structure that resembles a wild social structure is difficult, in part because moving elephants between different facilities to mimic male dispersal or facilitate breeding is a logistically challenging task, [17] but also because the extreme aggression of adult male elephants in musth poses a ...
This may be due to the fact that with proper treatment, captivity can provide refuge against diseases, competition with others of the same species and predators. Most notably, animals with shorter lifespans and faster growth rates benefit more from zoos than animals with higher longevities and slow growth rates. [2]
The Asian elephant lives in areas with some of the highest human populations and may be confined to small islands of forest among human-dominated landscapes. Elephants commonly trample and consume crops, which contributes to conflicts with humans, and both elephants and humans have died by the hundreds as a result.
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have human rights. Here, an elephant walks within the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, February 8, 2021.
Female Asian elephants sexually mature around the age of 10~15 and keep growing until 30, while males fully mature at more than the age of 25, and constantly grow throughout their life. [79] [80] Average elephant life expectancy is approximately 60 years. [8] Some individuals are known to have lived into their late 80s. [81]
Some researchers contend that captivity at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, among other zoos, has harmful emotional and neurological impacts on elephants. Elephants need larger spaces to ...
The Thai Elephant Conversation Center estimates that there are 2,000 to 3,000 elephants living in the wild in Thailand and about 2,700 domesticated ones. RELATED: Very good dog helps clean up the ...