Birds and mammals have evolved many thermal adaptations that are relevant to the
bioinspired design of temperature control systems and energy management in buildings …

In recent decades there has been a growing interest in proboscideans' body size, given that
mass is highly correlated with biological functions. Different allometric equations have been …

Elephant movement patterns in relation to surface water demonstrate that they are a water-
dependent species. Thus, there has been interest in using surface water management to …

Movement strategies of animals have been well studied as a function of ecological drivers
(eg, forage selection and avoiding predation) rather than physiological requirements (eg …

The overheating of buildings and their need for mechanical cooling is a growing issue as a
result of climate change. The main aim of this paper is to examine the impact of surface …

During the period of 1958 and 1960, the richest sample of Palaeoloxodon ex gr. P. falconeri
(104 individuals) was recovered from Spinagallo cave (Syracuse, Hyblean Plateau, SE …

Extinct worlds live again in palaeoart: artworks of fossil animals, plants and environments
carefully reconstructed from palaeontological and geological data. Such artworks are …

Long-lived hard and soft coral species that are able to develop dense patches with a
complex, threedimensional structure form an animal forest canopy, similar to trees in …

BLAST searches against the human genome showed that of the 93 keratin-associated
proteins (KRTAPs) of Homo sapiens, 53 can be linked by sequence similarity to an H …

Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant
behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant's brain, this book is an …