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<p style="text-align: justify;">Fodder plants and foraging behaviour of Asian elephants in Srivilliputhur Elephant Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India</p>

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Title Statement <p style="text-align: justify;">Fodder plants and foraging behaviour of Asian elephants in Srivilliputhur Elephant Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India</p>
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Priyadharshana, M. ; PG and Research Department of Botany, V. O. Chidambaram College, (Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli 627 012), Thoothukudi 628008, Tamil Nadu, India
Vadivel, V. ; PG and Research Department of Botany, V. O. Chidambaram College, (Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli 627 012), Thoothukudi 628008, Tamil Nadu, India
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Uncontrolled Index Term Botany - Ethnobotany
Elephant; Feeding behaviour; Fodder Plants; Srivilliputhur Elephant Reserve.
 
Summary, etc. <p style="text-align: justify;">The Srivilliputhur Elephant Reserve is one of India's 32 elephant reserves. It is home to wild elephants as well as other wildlife. This study aims to document the fodder plants and foraging behaviour of elephants in the Srivilliputhur Elephant Reserve. Elephants in the Srivilliputhur Elephant Reserve consumed 61 plant species from 25 different families. In the current study, the majority of the fodder plants of Asian Elephants belonged to the families of Fabaceae, Poaceae, and Malvaceae. Elephants were found to feed more frequently on trees (66%), followed by shrubs (16%), herbs (9%), and climbers (6%). It was observed that the elephants ate both the browsing tree and grazing grass species during the wet season, but browsing tree species dominated during the dry season.</p>
 
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Data Source Entry Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources (IJNPR) [Formerly Natural Product Radiance (NPR)]; ##issue.vol## 13, ##issue.no## 3 (2022): September 2022 (Ahead of Print)
 
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