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Elephants form lasting social bonds with individual humans such as their keepers.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that elephants form lasting social bonds with individual humans such as their keepers?

Unclear. Two peer-reviewed items give partial support: one captive-herd study reports that individual elephants preferred interacting with specific guides, indicating particular elephant-guide bonds, and a zoo welfare study associates more time in managed interactions with staff with lower stress hormones. Neither shows that such bonds are lasting, and both cover only captive elephants.

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Frontiers | Elephant-Initiated Interactions with Humans: Individual Differences and Specific Preferences in Captive African Elephants (Loxodonta africana)
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Frontiers | Elephant-Initiated Interactions with Humans: Individual Differences and Specific Preferences in Captive African Elephants (Loxodonta africana). (n.d.). frontiersin.org. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2017.00060/full

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Individual and environmental risk factors associated with fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-housed Asian and African elephants.
2019
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JL, B., K, C., JD, B., D, D., C, F., & K, A. H. (2019). Individual and environmental risk factors associated with fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-housed Asian and African elephants.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217326

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