Relationships with kin play an important role in the social lives of long-lived mammals, but the adaptive consequences of these interactions remain unclear. Does growing in a rich social environment allow to delay or slower patterns of senescence? The document gives their name, as well as when and where they were located. But it really all depends on which project (or projects) you volunteer with and how long you stay. Simon works currently at the Department of Sociology, University of Turku, Finland. A team of local veterinarians are actively involved in our projects and research by collecting data, providing updates of events in the field and administering veterinary care. Email: virpi.lummaa ( a t ) utu.fi Asian elephants make a fascinating comparison to humans with lifespans extending to 80 years and social groups containing several generations of breeders. She did her internship in the Elephant Project group at the University of Turku in Finland, supervised by Drs Emily Lynch, Carly Lynsdale, Martin Seltmann and Prof. Virpi Lummaa. Lucy Vigne, ivory researcher, tel: +254 722 411 037 Email: lucy.vigne@gmail.com. Hlose continues to work in the project as a research assistant in Turku. At 22 MTE-run camps , tourists can pay roughly 3,000 kyat (about $2) to ride, feed, and observe elephants. She aims to establish determinants of individual variation in infection re-establishment and outline the effects of co-infection by multiple parasite fauna. 2006), by drawing on the knowledge of oozies and veterinarians and by evaluating not only which plants are being eaten, but providing detailed information on plant parts and whether seeds are consumed or not. She has used this experience to establish the Elephant Project at the University of Turku, Finland, funded by the EUs Horizon2020 / ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grant 648766. Adults reach up to 24 feet in length and 13 feet in height and weigh up to 11 tons. An elephants trunk can grow to be about 2 metres long and can weigh up to 140 kg. Tel: +358 50 4382 044. She is funded by the University of Turku and is supervised by Prof. Virpi Lummaa, Dr. La Lansade (INRAE France) and Dr. Mirkka Lahdenper. Virpi is a professor at the University of Turku and the principal investigator in the Myanmar Timber Elephant Project. Snippet of National Archives of Myanmar 1/1(A) 1890, 1886 File No. He is also interested in the evolutionary biology of ageing and how early-life events can impact upon later life-history. He also aims to investigate other factors affecting elephant health from a conservation perspective over a wide range of study areas. published a new study in Conservation Physiology about the seasonal health variation of long-lived Asian elephants in a monsoon climate, Lynsdale et als new paper out in Scientific Reports: Demographic and reproductive associations with nematode infection in a long-lived mammal. Martin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. This allows them to keep in touch when apart and also enables them to recognise if an elephant is a friend. Working at the cross-road ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology, Sophies PhD focused oninvestigating the determinants of telomere dynamics and how these mechanisms are involved in key evolutionary processes. specific but interrelated objectives, and included Myanmar researchers in the Naga Self-Administered Zone (Naga SAZ) in 2016 (Naito et al. In Hinduism, the powerful deity honored before all sacred rituals is the elephant-headed Lord Ganesha, who is also called the Remover of Obstacles. Her Bachelors thesis was also about elephants and the tumor suppressor p53 in their genome. Susanna was an undergraduate student at the University of Turku, Finland. Adam is a research Fellow at the University of Stirling. She has a key role in collecting field data from the elephants. Our individual-based study uses a detailed longitudinal data set, which combines several decades of demographic data on the entire population with a more recent collection of data on individual phenotypes in the field. Argyreia is a genus in the morning glory family, with 90 species native to continental tropical Asia, Malaysia, and northern Australia (Acevedo-Rodrguez, 2005). Lucas is an international Masters student in Behavioral Ecology and Wildlife Management at the University of Dijon, France. According to Hindu mythology, the gods (deva) and the demons (asura) churned the oceans in a search for the elixir of life so that they would become immortal. Luckily, the two researchers in the vehicle - STE's Scientific Board Chair, George Wittemyer, and his then research assistant, Daniel Lentipo - escaped unhurt. I started the Amboseli Elephant Research Project along with my colleague Harvey Croze in 1972. The project aims to ensure long-term survival of viable conservation reliant populations of elephants in their natural habitats by protecting the elephants, their habitats and migration corridors. Some scientists believe that an elephants trunk is made up of 100,000 muscles, but no bones. Ecologist OConnell-Rodwells conducted research in 1997 which concluded that elephants create low-frequency vibrations (seismic signals) through their trunks and feet to communicate across long distances.Elephants use contact calls to stay in touch with one another when they are out of one another's sight. Contact: mirkka.lahdenpera ( a t ) utu.fi. Matleena has finished her Masters Thesis in the Elephant Project. Elephants are grayish to brown in color, and their body hair is sparse and coarse. By conducting research across several species (including Asian elephants, kea, jumping spiders and New Caledonian crows), his project aims to help further our understanding of how intelligence and various components of cognition, such as numerical ability, have evolved across different animal lineages. She is studying the unique relationship between the elephants and their handlers, or oozies,how thisancient relationship fares in the modern day, and how various aspects of this relationship impact upon elephanthealth, behaviour and physiology. She did her last Masters thesis on mahout elephant relationships within the Lummaa group in 2019. The African forest elephant, meanwhile, is smaller and only lives in west Africa. Contact: susanna.s.ukonaho ( a t ) utu.fi. She is also interested in how elephants get so big and measures how the elephants grow and what factors influence their growth and maturation. In May 2002, it was more than the grass that suffered after a bull named Rommel redirected his aggression towards one of our research vehicles in Samburu National Reserve. Mirkka was a Postdoctoral researcher both in the Elephant and Human Projects at the University of Turku, Finland. Latin name. For detailed pricing info, explore our projects and experiences below. Do individuals that are helped or born in good year senesce later and/or slower than other individuals? U Myo Zaw Win works as a Veterinary Inspector (Certificate in Vet) in Kawlin, MTE (MONREC). Susanna is currently working as a PhD student in Human Life History Group at the University of Turku. She did her internship in the Elephant Project at the University of Turku, supervised by Dr. Carly Lynsdale on the association between nematode parasite infection and hormonal activity (stress and reproductive hormones) within a semi-captive population of about 300 timber elephants. Adams research aims to determine the causes and consequences of variation in life-history traits in natural populations, using a variety of study systems. She will investigate the relationship between personality, cognition and stress caused by humans conducting behavioural experimentations as personality tests, learning task and emotional state investigation. An elephant in Myanmar wearing a satellite-GPS collar as part of a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute study tracking elephant movements to mitigate human-elephant conflict. Myanmar has the largest captive Asian elephant population in the world but low rates of survival and reproduction necessitate capture of wild elephants to maintain the working population. She has used this experience to establish the Elephant Project at the University of Turku, Finland, funded by During his PhD, he investigated how several life-traits and ecological factors affected elephant health. Building on her expertise on studying the mechanisms of ageing, she now aims to examine how different ageing mechanisms interact with lifelong health risks, workload, reproductive history and endocrinological measures of stress and reproductive status in Asian elephants. As a volunteer on our elephant conservation projects in Africa, youll focus entirely on the larger African bush elephant. Over the past decade, Myanmar has seen a significant increase in the number of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) killed, with conservationists investigating the determinants of telomere dynamics and how these mechanisms are involved in key evolutionary processes. For her PhD work (Rutgers University, USA), Emily examined kin-biased social and foraging behaviors among wild olive baboons. She has worked with the elephants for many years in Myanmar. Dr. Cristofari will also study the same Asian elephants in Myanmar and combine his research with Prof. Lummaa, hoping it will help them both Dr. In 2002, scientists Peter Leimgruber and Melissa Songer from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) initiated the first satellite-tracking project on Asian elephants in Myanmar. Her work focused on the influence of kinship on individual health, fertility, and behavior. Elephants communicate with a range of vocalizations, from low-frequency rumbles, known as infrasound, which humans cant hear, to higher-pitched screams and trumpets. Research both in the wild and in elephant conservation projects have shown they have the capacity for complex social structures, humour, play, various emotions and even altruism (selflessly helping other animals in need). MuMu is a research assistant from Myanmar. John developed evidence-based conservation strategies for Asian elephants in Myanmar. Our research aims to determine factors affecting health, fertility and mortality rates in the captive population and devising strategies to improve them. Elephas maximus. Her Masters thesis project focuses on the social aspect of personality in young horses, and how that affects their early training. The author is Co-Chairman with J.C. Daniel, Curator of the Bombay Natural History Society) of the Survival Service Commission's Asian Elephant Group, created in 1976. Asian elephants can be identified by their smaller, rounded ears. This work enhanced our understanding of how changes in demographic conditions affect population dynamics and is likely to guide conservation initiatives and captive management protocols. She extended her research by searching what ecological and social factors could explain variation in senescence between cohorts, individuals and traits thanks to extensive longitudinal datasets of the Finnish population and the semi-captive population of Asian elephants in Myanmar. Therefore, a similar collaborative field research team was organized, consisting of four Japanese scientists and two Myanmar scientists Population. Ocane has two degrees, MSc in behavioural ecology (Univ. More precisely, she investigated the determinants of testosterone variations and their implication in life-history trade-offs on a semi-captive Asian elephant population of Myanmar. We are a multi-disciplinary research group based at the University of Turku, Finland, studying a large and unique semi-captive population of timber elephants in Myanmar. This research showed that mothers living in disadvantaged conditions and environments are prone to produce milk that is different for sons and daughters. She is funded by the EUs Horizon2020, ERC (How elephants grow old / Prof. Virpi Lummaa, 648766 ERC-2014-CoG). Laura is a Masters student in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution at the University of Aix Marseille in France. on how the changing relationships between the elephants and their handlers influence the elephants health, welfare and behaviour, Diogo Santos et al. Supervised by Dr. Vrane Berger and Dr. Michael Briga, he completed his masters research internship at the University of Turku, Finland. She did her internship in the Myanmar Timber Elephant group, supervised by Dr. Martin Seltmann, MSc Ocane Liehrmann and Prof. Virpi Lummaa. Pia was a Master student at the University of Oulu, Finland, where her studies are focusing on biosciences and genetics. An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water then pour it into its mouth. Emily explored similar effects in Asian elephants, testing links between kin networks, hormonal stress profiles, health, and reproductive patterns. New paper from Jennie Crawley et al. Our study, a pilot project for a planned larger study, extends previous research on work elephant diet in Myanmar (Himmelsbach et al. Contact: larissarantes1 ( a t ) hotmail.com. In New Zealand Lauras research was focused on how maternal and infant characteristics, specifically infant sex, contribute to defining specific hormonal fingerprints in maternal milk and whether these are associated with infant growth outcomes. After a logger fells, say, one of the country's numerous and valuable teak trees, the log is hauled by a captive elephant. By expanding her previous biomedical research with concepts from life-history theory, ecology and evolutionary biology, Lauras goal is to enhance our knowledge around the physiology and ecology of breastfeeding in order to provide new avenues for the support of all mothers and babies in the most delicate time of their life. At the end of each workday, the elephants are allowed to Help SCBI scientists track and save elephants in Myanmar! Our Wildlife Research and Management Experiences start at 2000 for 2 weeks including transfers, meals and accommodation. Fieldtrips to Myanmar have fuelled Hannahs interest in protecting Myanmars elephants and the helping the people who live and work with them. Caen; France). For his PhD thesis, he investigated the link between life-history trade-offs, personality, stress physiology, individual quality and nest-site selection in female eiders (Somateria mollissima). Contact: khin.t.win2009 ( a t ) gmail.com. Prof. Sonja Koski and Prof. Virpi Lummaa. The aim of this work was also to establish telomeres as a health marker. Her PhD focused on the benefits and conflicts of family living in humans. As they did so, nine jewels surfaced, one of which was the elephant. Dr. Khin Than Win is a veterinarian and conservation biologist from Myanmar. She has experience in using Next Generation Sequencing methods, developing bioinformatics tools and performing genomic data analysis for biodiversity conservation. The life table analysis of working elephants of Myanmar documented that: 1) The population trend of the government-owned captive working elephants in Myanmar was not sustainable (R 0 = 0.50) as, overall, cow elephants were not producing enough calves to replace themselves. We sometimes have research student and other opportunities available and we also welcome collaborative projects using the data we collect, please send enquiries to virpi.lummaa ( a t ) utu.fi. She is also interested in the trade off between life history processes, having completed her masters within the project, investigating the relationship between size and reproduction in female Asian elephants. She specialized in evolutionary genetics and data analysis. She is in a key role in collecting field data from the elephants. The African bush elephant is the largest land mammal in the world and the largest of the three elephant species. Simon has completed his PhD degree at the University of Turku in 2020, studying context-dependence of grandmother effects and selection on post-reproductive lifespan. This project will produce world's largest database on multi-generational biodata of 8000+ elephants for across-discipline research. Vrane has used long-term monitoring in a wild population of Alpine marmots to investigate the influence of sociality on senescence during her PhD at the University of Lyon, France. Extremes of temperature and rainfall are affecting the survival of elephants working in timber camps in Myanmar and can double the risk of death in calves aged up to five, new research from the University of Sheffield has found. Human-elephant interactions and behavioural ecology of Asian elephants in Nepal based at the incredible Tiger Tops Lodges.We have collaborated with Elephants Alive for the Bull Elephant Network Project and have a long-standing association with the Myanmar Timber Elephant Project.. 2. The elephant is Earth's largest land animal, although the Asian elephant is slightly smaller than its African cousin. Her research combined this previous expertise on longevity and co-operative breeding in humans with examining the longitudinal dataset on Asian elephants from Myanmar. studied human lactation. For his Masters degree, Jonathan studied the relationship between elephant behaviour, stress and personality at the University of Sheffield. 141 White Elephant and List of State Elephants Further research could enable us work out whether any of the elephants that were painted were named in this list. She continues elephant research as a postdoc researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. Her graduate thesis focuses on the effects of seasonal variation on physiological markers of stress in the Asian elephant population from Myanmar. Her work is supervised by both Adj. Our work has reached out to audiences across the globe, both public and professional, radically altering the way elephants are perceived and treated. Hannah is a Drapers company junior research fellow, Pembroke college Cambridge and a Branco Weiss fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Laura graduated with a PhD in biomedical science from the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2020 where she studied human lactation. Save The Elephants +254 727 276 409 Email: media@savetheelephants.org. The African bush elephant is the worlds largest land animal, growing up to four metres tall and weighing as much as 6,000kg. Sophie is a postdoc researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. Tours; France) and MSc in Neurosciences (Univ. Simon did his Masters degree at the University of Sheffield. Image by Jennie Crawley/Myanmar Timber Elephant Project. As he is very passionate about the field of animal health, physiology and conservation, he aims to understand the immunological system of the elephant and factors that affect it, specifically focusing on immunosenescence. Her research aimed to understand the influence of biotic and abiotic factors in shaping senescence and the consequences on life history strategy. Dr. Hnin Nandar is a Veterinary Inspector (Vet) in MTE Headquarters, Yangon, Myanmar (MONREC). Hlose is a Masters student in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution at Sorbonne University, France. This might primarily be a result of the high mortality rate (32.5 percent) of calves under five years and the low calving rate that was She works as a Deputy Township Veterinary Officer in Yangon, at Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Irrigation. Scientists and in-country partners involved in this project include Peter Leimgruber, John McEvoy, Melissa Songer, Aung N. Chan, Christie Sampson, Aung Myo Chit, Christy Williams, Paing Soe, Mark Grindley, Naymyo Shwe, La Minn Yinyi, Zaw Min Oo, U Chay, and the Mahout tracking team. Laura graduated with a PhD in biomedical science from the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2020 where she. She has worked in the wildlife department of the Ministry of Forestry in Myanmar for about 20 years. She was doing her Masters degree related internship in the Elephant Project at the University of Turku, supervised by Dr. Robin Cristofari and Dr. Sophie Reichert. With this goal Laura will analyse the relationship between sex-specific breastfeeding patterns and breastmilk compositional variations across mothers and environmental/health conditions mothers face, in both human populations and in the Asian Elephant. 40,000 - 50,000 Large development projects (such as dams, roads, and mines), agricultural plantations and expanding human settlements have also fragmented elephant habitat. Martin is interested in the interplay of the elephants personality differences, individual quality, their social organization (especially allomothering) and ultimately their life prospects. On the Trails of Free-Roaming Elephants Human-Elephant Mobility and History across the Indo-Myanmar Highlands Paul G. Keil Abstract Humans and elephants have historically shared the forested mountain ranges of Zomia, a geography defined by the regular movement of people and an ecol- ogy shaped by the movement of its elephant population. on studying the mechanisms of ageing, she now aims to examine how different ageing mechanisms interact with lifelong health risks, workload, reproductive history and endocrinological measures of stress and reproductive status in Asian elephants.
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