Social and reproductive behaviour in elephants
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in A Week with Elephants (eds Daniel, J. C. and Datye, H. S.), Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1995, pp. 532. 35. Poole, J. H., Coming of Age with Elephants, Hyperion Press, New York, 1996. 36. Vidya, T. N. C., Fernando, P., Melnick, D. J. and Sukumar, R., Molecular genetic structure and conservation of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) populations across India. Anim. Conser., 2005,
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