Just published two manuscripts from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants team

The Editorial Board of Pachyderm are delighted to inform our readers that we have just published two more manuscripts online as Advance Articles. Both are from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE).

The first, A multigenerational perspective on elephant family ranging in Amboseli, Kenya, by Fishlock et al., draws on more than 30 years of research by ATE and its extensive dataset on individually known elephant families in the Amboseli ecosystem. The authors investigate how family-ranging patterns persist or change across generations. Families were classified as central, peripheral or shifting according to their use of the central Amboseli study area. Some maintained remarkably stable ranging strategies, while others changed substantially over time.

The study demonstrates how long-term monitoring can reveal multigenerational patterns of space use and highlights the role of community-based protection and broader conservation efforts in enabling elephants to maintain and adapt their ranges.

The second paper, An assessment of elephant–livestock interactions in Amboseli, Kenya: evidence of livestock killing by elephants, by Moss et al., examines an under-recorded form of human–elephant conflict: the killing of livestock by elephants. Drawing on 28 years of records from the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya, where elephants and Maasai pastoralists share increasingly pressured land and water resources, this Field Note documents elephant–livestock incidents and considers whether the behaviour is particular to Amboseli and comparable pastoralist landscapes or may be more widespread across Africa.

Read the full manuscripts here: Pachyderm, Volume 67