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Principle VII, references: Complex Social Organization

  1. Moss, C.J. & Poole, J.H. 1983. Relationships and social structure in African elephants. In: Hinde, RA (ed) Primate Social Relationships: an Integrated Approach. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 315-325.

    Payne, K. 2003. Sources of social complexity in the three elephant species. In F. B. M. de Waal and P. L. Tyack (eds.), Animal social complexity: Intelligence, culture, and individualized societies (pp. 57-85). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

  2. Archie, E.A., Moss, C.J. and Alberts, S.C. 2005. The ties that bind: genetic relatedness predicts the fission and fusion of social groups in wild African elephants. Proc. R. Soc. B: 1-10.

  3. Archie, E.A., Moss, C.J. and Alberts, S.C. 2005. The ties that bind: genetic relatedness predicts the fission and fusion of social groups in wild African elephants. Proc. R. Soc. B: 1-10.

    McComb K, Moss C, Sayialel, S. & Baker L. 2000. Unusually extensive networks of vocal recognition in African elephants. Anim Behav 59:1103-9.

    Carol Buckley, pers comm.

    Randall Moore, pers comm.

  4. Moss, C.J. & Poole, J.H. 1983. Relationships and social structure in African elephants. In: Hinde, RA (ed) Primate Social Relationships: an Integrated Approach Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 315-325.

    Moss, C. and Lee, P. C. Forthcoming. Female elephant social dynamics: Fidelity and flexibility. In C. J. Moss, and H. J. Croze (eds.), Amboseli elephants: A long-term perspective on a long-lived mammal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  5. Poole, J.H. and C.J. Moss. 1981. Musth in the African elephant, Loxodonta africana. Nature, 292:830-831.

    Poole, J.H. 1982. Musth and male-male competition in the African elephant. Ph.D.. Thesis. University of Cambridge.

  6. Poole, J.H., K.B. Payne, W. Langbauer Jr, C.J. Moss. 1988. The social contexts of some very low frequency calls of African elephants. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 22:385-392.

  7. McComb, K., Reby, D. Baker, L. Moss, C. and Sayialel, S. 2003. Long-distance communication of cues to social identity in African elephants. Animal Behaviour 65: 317-329.
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