{"id":5470,"date":"2020-09-05T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/th.bteh.org\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2020-09-05T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T14:19:31","slug":"importance-of-old-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/importance-of-old-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of old bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older male elephants have an important role to play in the survival of the species by passing on their skills and knowledge to younger males, a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-020-70682-y\" target=\"_blank\">study of African elephants<\/a> suggests. <\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Connie Allen of the University of Exeter and charity Elephants for Africa.<\/p><cite>&#8220;It has long been known that older females make more effective leaders of breeding herds due to their enhanced experience &#8211; we provide compelling support for a similar role of older males in the male society,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-54018133\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-54018133\">BBC Science and environment<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-54018133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/bteh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/09\/63f99ffc-114233067_ayoungadolescentnexttoanolderbullinthemakgadikgadipansnationalpark.connieallen..jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/09\/63f99ffc-114233067_ayoungadolescentnexttoanolderbullinthemakgadikgadipansnationalpark.connieallen..jpg 624w, https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/09\/63f99ffc-114233067_ayoungadolescentnexttoanolderbullinthemakgadikgadipansnationalpark.connieallen.-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A young adolescent next to an older bull in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park <br>potograph by Connie Allen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older male elephants have an important role to play in the survival of the species by passing on their skills and knowledge to younger males, a study of African elephants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6605,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5474,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bteh.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}