Flatliner

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With a fertile female elephant, the level of the hormone Progesterone go up and down in cycles, creating a curve in a digital diagramme. Some females who doesnt cycle, does not have this curve, their Progesterone's level is the same, creating a flat line in a digital diagramme, why they are referred to as a Flatliner.

Records about Flatliner from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Flatlining: [also: fatliner; see also: reproductive cycling] (Schulte 1998:220; Brown 2000:356-358) Lack of estrous cycling, especially in older captive females.

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

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Flatliner is mentioned on 1 elephant record pagesDruk,

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). Flatliner. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=88. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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

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