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A Novel Objective Method of Estimating the Age of Mandibles from African Elephants (Loxodonta africana Africana)

The importance of assigning an accurate estimate of age and sex to elephant carcasses found in the wild has increased in recent years with the escalation in levels of poaching throughout Africa. Irregularities identified in current ageing techniques prompted the development of a new method to descri...

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Autor principal: Stansfield, Fiona J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25970428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124980