Cooperating elephants mitigate competition until the stakes get too high

• Li-Li Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8810-7747

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• Joshua M. Plotnik ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: joshua.plotnik@gmail.com (JMP); quanrc@xtbg.ac.cn (R-CQ)

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-8818

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• Shang-Wen Xia,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China

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• Estelle Meaux,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5609-2384

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• Rui-Chang Quan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: joshua.plotnik@gmail.com (JMP); quanrc@xtbg.ac.cn (R-CQ)

  Affiliations Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0777-700X

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