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Face to face: human recognition of Asian elephant facial features

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2024
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Schiffmann, C., Schiffmann, L., Prager, P., Pastorini, J., Clauss, M., & Codron, D. (2024). Face to face: human recognition of Asian elephant facial features. Mammalian Biology : Zeitschrift Für Säugetierkunde, 104(4), 389–394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00415-5

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Abstract

Especially in species with complex social systems, the relatedness between individuals is important information. Visual phenotypic cues present one way to identify closely related conspecifics. Humans are capable of recognizing such visual cues in the faces of their own as well as several primate species, but to which degree this applies to non-primate species is largely unexplored. Here we demonstrate the capability of 110 test persons to recognize faces of 47 male Asian elephants based on 186 photographs. The human examiners were no

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  • Schiffmann, Christian
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  • Schiffmann, Linda
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  • Prager, Petra
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  • Pastorini, Jennifer
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  • Codron, Daryl
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104

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4

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389

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394

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Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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English

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2024-08-01

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2024-04-25

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1616-5047

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Schiffmann, C., Schiffmann, L., Prager, P., Pastorini, J., Clauss, M., & Codron, D. (2024). Face to face: human recognition of Asian elephant facial features. Mammalian Biology : Zeitschrift Für Säugetierkunde, 104(4), 389–394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00415-5

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