Investigating the adaptive coping mechanisms of rewilded elephants: A comparison of behavioural and physiological variables with wild elephants

• Tenisha Roos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tenisha Roos, Tamara Eggeling

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Elephant Reintegration Trust, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6945-2409

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• Tamara Eggeling ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tenisha Roos, Tamara Eggeling

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Elephant Reintegration Trust, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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• Marion Garai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Elephant Reintegration Trust, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3884-624X

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• Victoria L. Boult ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: v.l.boult@reading.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-5469

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• André Ganswindt,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Brett Mitchell,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Elephant Reintegration Trust, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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• Audrey Delsink

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mammal Research Institute, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Humane World for Animals South Africa Trust, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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