Myanmar Timber Elephant Project

Hannah’s paper dominates the media!

September 22, 2015

Hannah’s paper on the effects of stress on elephant calves, published this month in Scientific Reports, has been the centre of a media frenzy! Finding that elephants born to stressed mothers age faster and produce fewer offspring, her results could have important insights for the welfare and management of captive Asian elephant populations, as well as conservation of wild elephants.

Playful elephant calves in Myanmar

Playful elephant calves in Myanmar

The work has already been covered by IFL Science, The Daily Mail and Zee News in India (find them in our In The Press section), as well as Nature World News, Science World Report, Yahoo and our own University of Sheffield to name a few.

Check it out in pdf form on our Publications page, along with all our other publications.