By
Michelle Warwicker, BBC Nature
Wild
African elephants prefer to live in safer, protected areas and become stressed
when they leave them.
Scientists
have found African elephants living outside Serengeti National Park are more
stressed than those within the protected area.
More
elephants also choose to live inside the park, suggesting they "know"
which areas are safer to live in, and actively avoid humans.
Details
are published in the African
Journal of Ecology.
Serengeti
National Park helps protect animals from threats such as illegal hunting and
habitat disturbance.
With
no fences around protected areas in the Serengeti, animals and people may come
and go, and elephants can enter into areas where they are at greater risk.
The
study aimed to determine African elephants' (Loxodonta africana) welfare inside Serengeti National Park and
in the partially-protected adjoining areas of Grumeti Game Reserve and Ikoma
Open Area, where human disturbance is greater.
Read
on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21279321
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