Simple Summary Among all taxa, messages transmitted via chemical signals are the oldest
and most universal. For Asian and African elephants, odors convey information between …

The importance of chemical senses to elephants was recognized in anecdotal observations
by ancient humans. Modern scientific tools, such as molecular biological techniques, highly …

The Asian elephant is an unusual example of how intraspecies chemical communication
helps maintain societal cohesiveness within familial and herd units. The amount of …

The matriarchally organized Asian elephant society is characterized by long-term stability
and continuity. Flux within this society results from changing ecological conditions and the …

Chemical signals are difficult to fake because they are often directly associated with
phenotype and physiological condition, and hence likely to be honest signals for …

Highlights•Male elephants use the olfactory sense extensively when travelling on
pathways.•Those travelling alone are more responsive to pathways than group …

Many mammals utilize chemical communication. Through input to their olfactory senses they
gain exceptional amounts of information from excretions and secretions of conspecifics …

The study of chemical communication in elephants has resulted in startling and exciting new
discoveries in the past decade (Rasmussen and Schulte, 1998; Rasmussen et al., 2003). To …

Human–elephant conflict is a persistent problem across elephant home ranges, that results
in economic damage to commercial and subsistence farmers, and physical harm and death …

In antiquity, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus, gradually spread southward and
eastward to become a successfully surviving, ecologically dominant megaherbivore in the …