{"id":2206,"date":"2022-12-19T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/?page_id=2206"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:31:09","slug":"orphans-of-samburu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/our-work\/science\/behaviour-society\/orphans-of-samburu\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphans of Samburu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in poaching over the last several years and the drought of 2009 have left many elephant orphans and disrupted families in Samburu. Some orphans choose to remain with what is left of their disrupted groups, others leave their natal group to attach to unrelated individuals. Still others become drifters, showing some social preference but not fully committing to any one group.<\/p>\n<p>Shifra Goldenberg, a PhD Candidate at Colorado State University working under George Wittemyer, chair of STE\u2019s scientific board, is studying these strategies more deeply. It has become very clear that the social\u00a0intelligence of these animals affords them\u00a0resilience in the face of intense periods of\u00a0disruption. By following their social and\u00a0reproductive lives, we hope to understand\u00a0how elephants cope with high rates of\u00a0mortality and what this will ultimately mean\u00a0for the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in poaching over the last several years and the drought of 2009 have left many elephant orphans and disrupted families in Samburu. Some orphans choose to remain with what is left of their disrupted groups, others leave their natal group to attach to unrelated individuals. Still others become drifters, showing some social preference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2194,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}