Risk and Ethical Concerns of Hunting Male Elephant: Behavioural and Physiological Assays of the Remaining Elephants
Figure 2
The effect of bull hunts on bulls not present at the hunt.
We present the faecal stress hormone metabolite concentrations of individual bulls not associating with the targeted bulls at the time of their hunts. There was no significant increase between baseline: four day and baseline: one month average stress levels of individuals (Wilcoxon signed-ranks test: P>0.05 for all). When individuals were combined, there was a significant increase in baseline: four day and baseline: one month average stress levels (Wilcoxon signed-ranks test: P<0.05 for both).