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Large wild animals that weigh typically more than 30 lb when fully grown, hunted for food, sport or profit. (Source: CORBIT / AMHER)

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Jackson JC, Duodu KG, Holse M, Lima de Faria MD, Jordaan D, Chingwaru W, Hansen A, Cencic A, Kandawa-Schultz M, Mpotokwane SM, Chimwamurombe P, de Kock HL, Minnaar A 2010. Chapter 5 – The Morama Bean (Tylosema esculentum): A Potential Crop for Southern Africa. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 61 187-246

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123744685000052

Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3099-3107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709003760

Bercovitch FB, Bashaw MJ, del Castillo SM 2006. Sociosexual behavior, male mating tactics, and the reproductive cycle of giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis. Hormones and Behavior 50 (2) 314-321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X06000900

Moore L 2011. The neoliberal elephant: Exploring the impacts of the trade ban in ivory on the commodification and neoliberalisation of elephants. Geoforum 42 (1) 51-60

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718510001107

Pinter-Wollman N, Isbell LA, Hart LA 2009. Assessing translocation outcome: Comparing behavioral and physiological aspects of translocated and resident African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Biological Conservation 142 (5) 1116-1124

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709000597

Roever CL, van Aarde RJ, Chase MJ 2013. Incorporating mortality into habitat selection to identify secure and risky habitats for savannah elephants. Biological Conservation 164 98-106

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320713001018

van Aarde RJ, Jackson TP 2007. Megaparks for metapopulations: Addressing the causes of locally high elephant numbers in southern Africa. Biological Conservation 134 (3) 289-297

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320706003545

Evans KE, Harris S 2008. Adolescence in male African elephants, Loxodonta africana, and the importance of sociality. Animal Behaviour 76 (3) 779-787

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208002133

de Beer Y, van Aarde RJ 2008. Do landscape heterogeneity and water distribution explain aspects of elephant home range in southern Africa's arid savannas?. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (11) 2017-2025

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308001869

Raubenheimer EJ, Brown JMM, Rama DBK, Dreyer MJ, Smith PD, Dauth J 1998. Geographic variations in the composition of ivory of: the African elephant (Loxodonta africana). Archives of Oral Biology 43 (8) 641-647

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000399699800051X

Campos-Arceiz A, Blake S 2011. Megagardeners of the forest - the role of elephants in seed dispersal. Acta Oecologica 37 (6) 542-553

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X11000154

Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Fences and artificial water affect African savannah elephant movement patterns. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3086-3098

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709003759

Turnbull PCB, Tindall BW, Coetzee JD, Conradie CM, Bull RL, Lindeque PM, Hübschle OJB 2004. Vaccine-induced protection against anthrax in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Vaccine 22 (25-26) 3340-3347

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X04002105

Franz M, Kramer-Schadt S, Kilian W, Wissel C, Groeneveld J 2010. Understanding the effects of rainfall on elephant - vegetation interactions around waterholes. Ecological Modelling 221 (24) 2909-2917

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380010004588

Carter KD, Seddon JM, Frère CH, Carter JK, Goldizen AW 2013. Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences. Animal Behaviour 85 (2) 385-394

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347212005246

Hitchcock RK 2000. Water resource use and management in the Okavango system of southern Africa: the political economy of state, community and private resource control. Botswana Notes and Records 31

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Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/AJA052550590_47

Zisadza P, Gandiwa E, van der Westhuizen H, van der Westhuizen E, Bodzo V 2010. Abundance, distribution and population trends of hippopotamus in Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe :research article. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 40 (2) 149-157

Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/EJC117347

O'Connell-Rodwell CE, Rodwell T, Rice M, Hart LA 2000. Living with the modern conservation paradigm: can agricultural communities co-exist with elephants? A five-year case study in East Caprivi, Namibia. Biological Conservation 93 (3) 381-391

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320799001081

Giraffid, the official newsletter of the IUCN SSC Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group (GOSG). Giraffid

Website link:http://www.giraffeconservation.org/newsletters.php

Carter KD, Brand R, Carter JK, Shorrocks B, Goldizen AW 2013. Social networks, long-term associations and age-related sociability of wild giraffes. Animal Behaviour 86 (5) 901-910

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213003539

Kühnelt W 1965. Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika). Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika) 185-190

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-25291-8_1

Joubert E 1981. Wild life as a natural resource in SWA/Namibia and associated research. GeoJournal 2 (2) 109-111

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196330

Seeber PA, Ciofolo I, Ganswindt A 2012. Behavioural inventory of the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis). BMC Research Notes 5 650

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1756-0500-5-650

Miller MF 1994. Large African herbivores, bruchid beetles and their interactions with Acacia seeds. Oecologia 97 (2) 265-270

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00323159

Viljoen PJ, Bothma J du P 1990. The influence of desert-dwelling elephants on vegetation in the northern Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (1) 85-96

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19900643010.html;jsessionid=C7B0A8A58D66C00F46B16827C02C07EC

van Aarde R 2005. Assessment of Seasonal Home-Range Use by Elephants across southern Africa's seven Elephants Clusters.

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Elephant Behavior and Hormone Fluctuation - Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Website link:https://pangea.stanford.edu/programs/esys/elephant-behavior-and-hormone-fluctuation-etosha-national-park-namibia

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

Website link:http://elephantdigimag.ifaw.org/ipad/

van Staden G, Rakoma A 2013. Chemical Treatment of Rhinoceros Horns.

Website link:http://www.dod.mil.za/news/2013/01/dakota_c47.htm

Bennitt E 2012. The ecology of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Website link:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573418

Prins HHT 1996. Ecology and behaviour of the African buffalo: Social inequality and decision making.

Website link:http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-0-412-72520-3

Mbaiwa JE 2005. Wildlife resource utilisation at Moremi Game Reserve and Khwai community area in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Environmental Management 77 (2) 144-156

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479705001404

Naidoo R, du Preez P, Stuart-Hill G, Jago M, Wegmann M 2012. Home on the Range: Factors Explaining Partial Migration of African Buffalo in a Tropical Environment. Plos ONE 7 (5) e36527

Website link:http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0036527

Roever CL, van Aarde RJ, Leggett K 2013. Functional connectivity within conservation networks: delineating corridors for African elephants. Biological Conservation 157 128-135

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320712002947

Roever CL, van Aarde RJ, Leggett K 2012. Functional responses in the habitat selection of a generalist mega-herbivore, the African savannah elephant. Ecography 35 972-982

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07359.x/abstract

Leggett K 2010. Daily and hourly movement of male desert-dwelling elephants. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 197-205

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01101.x/abstract

Leggett K 2008. Annual Report 2008 For the International Elephant Foundation (January 2008 – December 2008).

Website link:http://www.elephantconservation.org/programs/archive-of-projects/leggett-annual-report-2008/

Radio-Collaring Elephants in Namibia with Keith Leggett - EarthWatch Institute (US/International).

Website link:http://www.earthwatch.org/aboutus/research/voices_of_science/radio_collaring_elephants/

Atlasing in Namibia - Mammal Atlas.

Website link:http://www.the-eis.com/atlas.php

Thrash I, Theron GK, Bothma J du P 1995. Dry season herbivore densities around drinking troughs in the Kruger National Park. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (2) 213-219

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305800916

Thrash I 1998. Impact of water provision on herbaceous vegetation in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 38 (3) 437-450

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903189

Traill LW 2004. Seasonal utilization of habitat by large grazing herbivores in semi-arid Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34 (1) 13-24

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/10709

Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF).

Website link:http://www.giraffeconservation.org/

Simmons RE, Altwegg R 2010. Necks-for-sex or competing browsers? A critique of ideas on the evolution of giraffe. Journal of Zoology 282 (1) 6–12

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00711.x/full

Wood JD, O'Connell-Rodwell CE, Klemperer SL 2005. Methodological Insights: Using seismic censors to detect elephants and other large mammals: A potential census technique. Journal of Applied Ecology 42 587 - 594

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01044.x/abstract

Leggett KEA 2006. Home range and seasonal movement of elephants in the Kunene Region, northwestern Namibia. African Zoology 41 (1) 17 - 36

Website link:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/az/article/view/153268

Vetter S 2001. Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands (AT0726).

Website link:https://secure.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0726_full.html

Vetter S 2001. Angolan Mopane woodlands (AT0702).

Website link:https://secure.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0702_full.html

Spriggs A 2001. Kaokoveld desert (AT1310).

Website link:https://secure.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at1310_full.html

McGranahan D 2008. Managing private, commercial rangelands for agricultural production and wildlife diversity in Namibia and Zambia. Biodiversity Conservation

Website link:http://sewanee.academia.edu/devanmcg/Papers/143648/Managing_private_commercial_rangelands_for_agricultural_production_and_wildlife_diversity_in_Namibia_and_Zambia