Clan

Definition of Clan

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Records about Clan from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Clan: [see aiso: social organization] (Moss & Poole 1983: 315,317,322,323; Hal-Martin 1987:616; Moss 1988: 76,126,132; Estes 1991:261; Poole 1994:334) Family units that use the same dry-season Home-range [n Amboseli, Kenya, 4 clans contained 9,8,5,5 family units, tespectively (Moss & Poole 1983:317)]. Playback experiments show that elephants distinguish berween clan and non-clan members (NdcComb, et al., 2000).

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). Clan. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=71. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Records about Clan from the Gajah Glossary, https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf

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