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VetBooks.ir to confinement‐specific stressors such as weather‐related stress. More research is
needed to explore the most efficient way to
restricted movement, reduced retreat space,
forced proximity to humans, reduced feeding
phants can survive and breed well without
opportunities, or maintenance in abnormal tame elephants in captivity so that these ele-
social groups as seen in zoo elephants but sustained effect of trauma they suffer in tam-
they do tend to suffer from work‐ and ing operations.

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