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Relevant Publications from Bring The Elephant Home and Elephant Reintegration Trust

Eggeling, T., Roos, T., Boult, V. L., Mitchell, B., & Steyn, T. J. (in prep.). Quantifying detailed behavioural changes of African elephants during reintegration from captivity to wild-living.

Eggeling, T., Roos, T., Prehn, S., Garai, M., Pretorius, Y. (in prep.). The application of Social Network Analysis for the management of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) on fenced reserves in South Africa: A case study in Pilanesberg National Park

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Garai, M. E. (1997). The development of social behaviour in translocated juvenile African elephants Loxodonta africana (Biumenbach). University of Pretoria (South Africa).

Garaï, M., & Carr, R. (2001). Unsuccessful introductions of adult elephant bulls to confined areas in South Africa. Pachyderm, 31, 52-57.

Garai, M. E. (2001). Social Behaviour of the elephants at Pinnawela Elephant Orphangae, Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the International Elephant & Rhino Symposium, Vienna June 2001. Schüling Verlag, Münster. Pp.32:40

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Garaï, M. E. (2018). Non-lethal elephant population control methods> Summary of the first workshop of the Elephant Specialist Advisory Group South Africa. Bothalia 48(2) workshop of the Elephant Specialist Advisory Group of South Africa’, Bothalia 48(2), a2357. https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v48i2.2357

Kurt F. & Garaï M.E. (2001). Stereotypies in captive Asian elephants – A symptom of social isolation. In: Recent Researchon Elephants & Rhinos. Proceedings of the International Elephant & Rhino Symposium, Vienna June. Schüling Verlag, Münster. Pp. 57-63.

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Kurt F. & Garaï M.E. (2008). The Asian Elephant in Captivity. Foundation Books. Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi

Pretorius, Y., Garaï, M. E., & Bates, L. A. (2019). The status of African elephant Loxodonta africana populations in South Africa. Oryx, 53(4), 757-763.

Roos, T., Purdon, A., Boult, V. L., Delsink, A., Mitchell, B., Kilian, P. J. (in prep.). Movement patterns of two reintegrated African elephant (Loxodonta africana) herds: transitioning from captivity to free-living.

van de Water, A. (2022). Aligning elephant conservation with societal aspirations (Doctoral dissertation). University of KwaZulu-Natal. https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/dc2e2df4-6afa-48b6-ba06-30cb3f692b23/content

van de Water, A., Di Minin, E., & Slotow, R. (2022). Human-elephant coexistence through aligning conservation with societal aspirations. Global Ecology and Conservation, 37, e02165.

van de Water, A., Henley, M., Bates, L., & Slotow, R. (2020). Future of Thailand’s captive elephants. Animal Sentience, 5(28). https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol5/iss28/18

van de Water, A., Henley, M. D., Bates, L., & Slotow, R. (2022). The value of elephants: A pluralistic approach. Ecosystem Services, 58(101488). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101488

van de Water, A., & Matteson, K. (2018). Human-elephant conflict in western Thailand: Socio-economic drivers and potential mitigation strategies. PLoS One, 13(6), e0194736.