The elephant-wallahs' microcosm

Microcosm Study

Abbott (1966) described microcosms as miniaturized ecosystems. Among the oldest and most specialized examples of the microcosm technique were bioassay systems, such as that found in the standard BOD determination. Abbott also noted that, due to the unpredictability and complexity of natural systems, in situ experiment results were often vague and inconclusive, and many researchers had successfu...

Problem-Elephant Translocation: Translocating the Problem and the Elephant?

Human-elephant conflict (HEC) threatens the survival of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Translocating "problem-elephants" is an important HEC mitigation and elephant conservation strategy across elephant range, with hundreds translocated annually. In the first comprehensive assessment of elephant translocation, we monitored 16 translocations in Sri Lanka with GPS collars. All tran...

“Giants in a Microcosm”

On examination of a breast mass surgically excised in a 69-years-old woman, a pure invasive micropapillary carcinoma (MPC) was diagnosed (Figure 1). At close examination, intensely eosinophilic syncytial-multinucleated giant cells (CD68+) percolating the stromal bands were identified (Figure 1). The breast carcinoma illustrated here shows therefore a combination of 2 rarities, namely, an invasi...

Man Is a Microcosm

Elephant in the Room