Scientists and Zoos Team Up on Landmark Elephant Welfare Project

Patricia Bailey — July 14, 2016 - 11:00am

Given that elephants are the largest land mammals on the planet, one might expect that when it comes to enclosures for zoo elephants, size matters.

However, a newly released study in which the University of California, Davis, played a key role reveals that social interactions and having an array of opportunities to engage with their surroundings may be more important to elephants’ welfare than space.

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Scientists and Zoos Team Up on Landmark Elephant Welfare Project