Social support helps orphaned elephants ‘cope’
‘Friends and family’ lower long-term stress in orphaned elephants, study finds. …
The research was led by Jenna Parker, an ecologist from Colorado State University. “If you’re out in the field, watching elephants, you can just tell that family life is everything,” she told BBC News. “Calves are rarely more than maybe ten metres from their mother until they’re about eight or nine years old.
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