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Every #EleFunFactFriday this #AsianElephantAwarenessMonth we’ve teamed up with @elephantsIEF and @zoos_aquariums to help you get to know these amazing species and #conservationefforts.
While elephant cells 🐘🧫 induce #apoptosis ☠️ in response to a teeny tiny bit of DNA 🧬 damage, they’re insensitive to oxidative stress and #ferroptosis. Like we just can’t kill them 🤷♂️
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#Ferroptosis turns 10: Emerging mechanisms, physiological functions and #therapeutic applications. Must-read Review @CellCellPress from @bstockwell @Columbia http://bit.ly/3NSYETw
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“Mom, did you see how brave I was?” 😅
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!
Los colmillos son herramientas importantes para los elefantes, entre otras cosas, los utilizan en muestras de agresividad, para cavar en lechos de ríos secos y proteger su trompa durante peleas.
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Tusks are important tools for elephants; among other things, they are used in displays of aggression, to dig in dry river beds, and protect the trunk during fights.
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It's #AsianElephantAwarenessMonth, so we thought we'd do some #EleFunFactFriday flashbacks about Asian Elephants!
Did you know only Asian elephants get freckles?
#TONSofLove #ConserveWhatYouLove
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!
Los pies de los elefantes están llenos de corpúsculos de Pacini, un tipo de células mecanorreceptoras, que es lo que se piensa que les permite detectar vibraciones sísmicas.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!
Elephant feet are full of Pacinian corpuscles, a type of mechanoreceptor cells, which is what is believed to allow them to detect seismic vibrations.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!
La forma del pie de un elefante no es perfectamente redonda y sus pies delanteros y traseros son un poco diferentes, lo que permite conocer la dirección en la que está viajando al observar sus huellas.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! The shape of an elephant’s foot is not perfectly round and their front and back feet are shaped differently, allowing you to tell which direction they are traveling by looking at their footprints.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Mientras que los humanos (y muchos mamíferos) caminan en la planta de sus pies, a lo que se le conoce como locomoción plantígrada, los elefantes tienen un cojín de grasa debajo de sus plantas lo que los convierte en digitígrados; ¡si ...
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!Humans (& many mammals) walk on the soles of their feet which is called plantigrade locomotion, while elephants have a huge fat pad under their soles causing them to be digitigrade; if you look at the bones of an elephant it looks like they are walking...
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!
Una manera en que los elefantes evalúan sus alrededores es a través de “periscopiar”, que es cuando elevan sus trompas y las mueven alrededor usando su habilidad olfativa para valorar que hay a la redonda. @AfricamSafari
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One way elephants gauge their surroundings is through “periscoping”, or elevating and shifting their trunks to use their olfactory ability to assess their environs.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!El amor por el lodo es una de las razones por que a los elefantes se les considera ingenieros de los ecosistemas; a las áreas donde ellos y otros animales se restriegan para cubrirse de lodo se les llaman revolcaderos mismos que... @AfricamSafari
#EleFunFactFriday! Their love of mud is one of the reasons elephants are considered ecosystem engineers; the areas in which they & other animals roll & coat themselves in the mud are called wallows which create areas that more easily fill with water and can become watering holes
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Traído a usted por la Fundación Internacional del Elefante y @AfricamSafari Africam Safari
A pesar de que pueden cambiar con el tiempo, los científicos utilizan los cortes, muescas y marcas en la oreja de un elefante para identificarlos individualmente
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Although they can change over time, tears, nicks, and marks on an elephant’s ears are used by researchers to identify individual animals.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!
Las venas en las orejas de un elefante son tan únicas como las huellas digitales y pueden ser utilizadas para identificarlos.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!
The veins on an elephant’s ears are as unique as fingerprints and can be used for identification.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Traído a usted por la Fundación Internacional del Elefante y @AfricamSafari!
Las orejas de los elefantes son importantes para la comunicación. Por ejemplo, las orejas desplegadas pueden ser una señal para sus depredadores o potenciales rivales.
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Elephant ears are important for communication. For instance, flaring ears can be a warning to predators or potential elephant rivals.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Traído a usted por la Fundación Internacional del Elefante y @AfricamSafari Africam Safari
Las orejas de los elefantes están llenas de vasos sanguíneos cerca de la piel que los ayudan a enfriarse.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!
Elephant ears are inundated with blood vessels close to the skin to help with cooling.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Traído a usted por la Fundación Internacional del Elefante y @AfricamSafari Africam Safari
Las orejas de los elefantes están hechas de cartílago y se pueden romper, justo como las narices de los humanos.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Traído a usted por la Fundación Internacional del Elefante y @AfricamSafari Africam Safari
Las orejas de los elefantes están hechas de cartílago y se pueden romper, justo como las narices de los humanos.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!
Elephant ears are made of cartilage and can be broken, just like human noses.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!Los elefantes africanos en musth usan retumbos de musth de baja frecuencia para comunicarse a largas distancias.Todavía no se han identificado vocalizaciones análogas en los elefantes asiáticos.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!African elephants in musth use low-frequency musth rumbles to communicate over long distances.Analogous vocalizations have not yet been definitively identified in Asian elephants #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #FridayFeeling #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Many crop-raiding incidents involve male elephants, especially during musth. Musth is thought to be metabolically stressful, so these males may be turning to nutritionally rich crops as a food source #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #FridayFeeling @chaseladue
#EleFunFactFriday!Alrededor de la pubertad, los elefantes asiáticos machos pasan por un periodo llamado “moda musth”.Durante dicho periodo los machos excretan secreciones que huelen como miel, en contraste a los olores acre exudados durante el [email protected] @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Around puberty, male Asian elephants go through a period called “moda musth.” During moda musth, males exude secretions that smell like honey, in contrast to the pungent odors exuded during full musth #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!Los elefantes asiáticos machos usan una feromona llamada frontalin para comunicar el musth.El mismo compuesto químico es usado por los escarabajos de corteza como una feromona de agregación.Éste es un caso de evolución convergente
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!Male Asian elephants use a pheromone called frontalin to communicate musth. The same chemical compound is used as an aggregation pheromone in bark beetles. This is a case of convergent evolution#elephants #elefante #FunFactFriday #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Having a good #EleFunFactFriday? Here is an intriguing fact about #elephant #musth. #ILoveScience #ILovenature #STEM
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Until the 1970s, musth was thought to be a phenomenon unique to Asian elephants. However, since then most scientific research on musth has been focused on African elephants
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!Durante el musth los elefantes machos producen continuamente señales químicas. Éstas señales son emitidas a través de secreciones de la glándula temporal, goteo de orina e inclusive por su aliento y heces
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday!Male elephants continuously produce chemical signals during musth. These signals are emitted through temporal gland secretions, urine dribbling, and even through their breath and dung #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #FridayFeeling #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Male elephants continuously produce chemical signals during musth. These signals are emitted through temporal gland secretions, urine dribbling, and even through their breath and dung
#elephants #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Male elephants continuously produce chemical signals during musth. These signals are emitted through temporal gland secretions, urine dribbling, and even through their breath and dung
#elephants #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!El musth es comunicado simultáneamente por diferentes canales sensoriales, ya que involucra componentes visuales, auditivos y olfatorios. Se piensa que esta redundancia asegura que la señal del musth sea propagada adecuadamente
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Musth is communicated through several different sensory channels simultaneously, as it involves visual, auditory, and olfactory components. It’s thought that this redundancy helps ensure the musth signal is accurately propagated #FunFactFriday @chaseladue
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!El musth sirve como una señal para resolver la jerarquía de dominancia en los elefantes machos. Incluso elefantes más jóvenes en musth a menudo vencen a elefenates más viejos y grandes por el acceso a las hembras @AfricamSafari #sabiasque @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday!Musth serves as a signal to resolve dominance hierarchies between male elephants. Even younger elephants in musth often outcompete older, larger elephants for access to females
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Se piensa que el musth evolucionó como una señal que sirve para sincronizar la reproducción entre elefantes machos y hembras. Típicamente, sólo se ha observado a los machos en musth asociarse con los grupos de hembras @AfricamSafari @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Musth is thought to have evolved as a signal that serves to synchronize reproduction between male and female elephants. Typically, only musth males are observed to associate with female groups.
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#EleFunFactFriday Elephants and their extinct relatives (Proboscideans) have an extra copy of the superoxide dismutase [Cu-Zn] (SOD1) gene, which may underlie their (cells) augmented resistance to oxidative stress! 🐘#TheMoreYouKnow #PetosParadox #EvMed💫 https://t.co/cmabdiqQes
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Hasta los 1970’s, se pensaba que el musth era un fenómeno único a los elefantes asiáticos. Sin embargo, desde entonces la mayoría de los estudios en musth han sido enfocados en los elefantes africanos @AfricamSafari #FelizFinde #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Until the 1970s, musth was thought to be a phenomenon unique to Asian elephants. However, since then most scientific research on musth has been focused on African elephants
#elephants #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #FridayFeeling #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
#EleFunFactFriday with @ElephantsIEF featuring Thai, an Asian elephant from @houstonzoo
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Musth was first described among Asian elephants during ancient times. The term “musth” comes from an Urdu word meaning “intoxicated,” presumably because male elephants in musth can be more aggressive #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!El musth fue descrito en los elefantes asiáticos en tiempos ancestrales. El término “musth” proviene de una palabra urdu que significa “intoxicado”, probablemente porque los elefantes en musth pueden ser más agresivos @AfricamSafari #FelizFinde @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Musth was first described among Asian elephants during ancient times. The term “musth” comes from an Urdu word meaning “intoxicated,” presumably because male elephants in musth can be more aggressive #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!El fenómeno de musth es completamente único a los elefantes. No se sabe de ningún otro mamífero que presente este tipo de periodo reproductivo que es tanto asíncrono como perió[email protected] #FelizFinde #Animales #sabiasque #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday!The phenomenon of musth is completely unique to elephants. No other mammal is known to exhibit this sort of male reproductive period that is both asynchronous and regularly occurring. #elephants #FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Excited to collaborate with @ElephantsIEF on a series of musth-related facts. This week’s photo features Jack, one of our bulls at Wasgamuwa.
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Musth is an asynchronous reproductive period unique to male elephants that is triggered by a surge in testosterone. This testosterone initiates a suite of behavioral and physiological changes.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday!El musth es un periodo reproductivo asíncrono único de los machos que es desencadenado por una oleada de testosterona; misma que inicia un conjunto de cambios comportamentales y fisiológicos @AfricamSafari #FelizFinde #sabiasque #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Musth is an asynchronous reproductive period unique to male elephants that is triggered by a surge in testosterone. This testosterone initiates a suite of behavioral and physiological changes.
#FunFactFriday #EleFunFact #EleFactFriday @chaseladue
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Después de que dos elefantes se aparean, los elefantes cercanos los rodean y vocalizan ruidosamente a lo que los investigadores le llaman "pandemonio del apareamiento".
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After two elephants have mated, nearby elephants surround the couple and loudly vocalize which researchers call “mating pandemonium”.
Photo courtesy of Jordana Meyer.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Después de que dos elefantes se aparean, los elefantes cercanos los rodean y vocalizan ruidosamente a lo que los investigadores le llaman "pandemonio del apareamiento".
@AfricamSafari #FelizFinde #Animales #sabiasque #EleFactFriday
Happy #EleFunFactFriday!
After two elephants have mated, nearby elephants surround the couple and loudly vocalize which researchers call “mating pandemonium”.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! Utilizando el mapa genético geográfico del origen de los elefantes, los científicos pueden realizar la prueba de la huella de ADN del marfil confiscado para determinar de que país provino la pieza
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Using the genetic geographic map of elephant origin, scientists can conduct DNA fingerprinting on confiscated ivory to determine from what country the tusk originated.
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#EleFunFactFriday! El Dr. Samuel Wasser asignó las posiciones geográficas de los elefantes al comparar los genotipos en el loci 16 de más de 600 muestras de ADN extraídas de muestras de tejidos y heces recogidas de elefantes en ubicaciones con hábitat de sabana [email protected]
#EleFunFactFriday! Dr. Samuel Wasser assigned geographical locations of #elephants by comparing genotypes at 16 loci to over 600 reference DNA samples extracted from tissue &dung samples collected from elephants in known habitat locations across Africa, making an elephant DNA map
#EleFunFactFriday! Los investigadores han determinado que el ADN que se encuentra en su excremento puede usarse para crear un mapa geográfico sobre su origen, ya que las poblaciones que están cerca una de otra tienden a ser genéticamente más similares que las [email protected]
Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Researchers determined that #elephant DNA found in dung piles could be used to create a geographic map of elephant origin since populations close to one another tend to be genetically more similar than populations that are more distant #FunFactFriday
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! El marfil de los elefantes es diferente a otros marfiles cuando se observa en secciones transversales: tiene líneas que se cruzan y forman figuras de diamantes.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Elephant ivory is different from other ivory when viewed in cross-sections: it has lines that criss-cross and form diamond shapes.
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Love it! Let's collaborate on some #EleFunFactFriday memes! Perhaps all about musth?
Hi there! I'll be sharing my work while I'm here in the field over the next 6 mos, studying male Asian elephant behavior and conservation here in #SriLanka. Get ready for *tons* of #elephant facts, photos, and other tidbits. First: an unironic glamour shot next to a pile of dung.
Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! El marfil consiste principalmente en dentina y una capa externa de esmalte.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! Ivory consists mainly of dentine and an outer layer of enamel.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! El término "marfil" se puede usar para describir los dientes de ciertos mamíferos como los elefantes, morsas, ballenas, hipopótamos y narvales.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! The term “ivory” can be used to describe the teeth from certain mammals like elephants, walruses, whales, hippos, and narwhals.
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Feliz #EleFunFactFriday! La palabra "marfil" viente del antiguo egipcio âb, âbu ("Elefante"), a través del latín ebor- o ebur.
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Happy #EleFunFactFriday! The word “ivory” comes from the ancient Egyptian âb, âbu ("elephant"), through the Latin ebor- or ebur.
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