AERP

Definition of AERP

From the elephant glossary Section: organisation

Research assistants Norah Njiraini, Soila Sayialel and Katito Sayialel with Cynthia Moss

Relevant Literature about AERP
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases

The Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) is a long-term Research project on the Ethology of the African elephant, operated by the nonprofit Amboseli Trust for Elephants. The project studies the elephant's social behavior, age structure and population dynamics. It is the longest running study of elephant behavior in the wild, and has gathered data on life histories and association patterns for more than 2,000 individual elephants.

The Research project was initiated in 1972 by Cynthia Moss and Harvey Croze in Amboseli National Park in the south of Kenya. Relatively few poachers have been active in Amboseli Parks approximately 390 km² area. This is especially due to the Maasai people, and the constant presence of tourists and researchers. Thus, Amboseli is one of the few regions in Africa where the age structure of elephants has remained undistorted. The area is monitored by game wardens and scientists throughout the year.

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). AERP. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=200. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amboseli_Elephant_Research_Project

Selected publications

C. J. Moss; H. Croze; P. C. Lee; The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-term Perspective on a Long-lived Mammal

Links about AERP

Selected external links for this article about AERP:

C. J. Moss; H. Croze; P. C. Lee; The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-term Perspective on a Long-lived Mammal, online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273099476_The_Amboseli_Elephants_A_Long-term_Perspective_on_a_Long-lived_Mammal_by_C_J_Moss_H_Croze_P_C_Lee

External relevant search

Search more on the web for elephant+%22AERP%22 (Opens in new window and the word elephant+%22AERP%22 is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results)

Categories glossary | organisation

About this documentThis document was created: 2021-11-03. Latest update: 2021-11-03 08:20:59 included 953 characters with valid HTML5