Academic Journal
Q3Pachyderm
About Pachyderm
Pachyderm is a scholarly journal published by IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q3, with an SJR of 0.329 and H-index of 17.
Coverage: 2008-2015, 2017-2025. Research categories: Animal Science and Zoology (Q3).
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Topics in published research
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology; Identification and Quantification in Food; Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology; Zoonotic diseases and public health; Nasal Surgery and Airway Studies.
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An assessment of elephant-livestock interactions in Amboseli, Kenya: evidence of rare livestock killing by elephants
Cynthia Moss, Lydia Natalie Tiller, Phyllis Lee, Catherine Sayialel et al.
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v67i.1367multigenerational perspective on elephant family ranging in Amboseli, Kenya
Vicki Fishlock, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C Lee, Keith Lindsay et al.
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v67i.1360Designing conservation education as a living system: lessons from Borana Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya
Richard Hennery
2026-08-10 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v67i.1364Potential physiological costs of leadership in African elephants: elevated faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in a matriarch
Kyla Funk, Leslie R. Brown, Andre Ganswindt, Vander Wal Eric et al.
2026-06-19 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v67i.1356Rhinos of the World: Ecology, conservation and management
Sam M Ferreira, Dan Stiles, Hilloljyoti Singha, Jonathan Spencer et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1352African Rhino Specialist Group Chair report Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes du Rhinocéros d’Afrique
David Balfour, Sam M Ferreira
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1347Investigating the use of olfactory cues to redirect elephant pathways in Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana
Vera Ruijs, Soren Faurby, Kate E Evans
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1324IUCN African rhino conservation 2025-2035, a contemporary strategic framework
Mike Knight, Markus Hofmeyr
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1330Depictions of relationships between elephants and San people in the rock art of the Cederberg mountains, Western Cape
Andrew W W Paterson
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1332The most endangered extant rhino species is now on the verge of extinction
John Payne, Karen K Dixon, Sukianto Lusli, Zainal Zahari Zainuddin et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1342The relationship between Glyrostigma rhinocerontis and rhinos in East and southern Africa
Charles Dewhurst, Graham Reid
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1339African Elephant Specialist Group Chair report /Rapport du Groupe de Spécialistes de l’Eléphant d’Afrique
Ben Okita-Ouma, Rob Slotow
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1348Impact of severe drought-related mortality on the subsequent dynamics of a population of African savannah elephants
Kevin M Dunham
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1308The reaction of African elephants towards African honeybees in northern Botswana
Tempe Adams, Lucy E King, Tracey Rogers, Michael Chase et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1337Balancing boundaries: elephant movements in the changing landscape around Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Joanna Hill, Charles Ochanda, Dipto Sarkar, Colin Chapman et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1336Guidelines for contributors
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2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1354Using drones as ground-based camera systems with multiple coordinated sensors to study African elephants (Loxodonta Africana)
Angus Carey-Douglas, Liam Jasperse-Sjolander, Giacomo D'Ammando, Frank Pope et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1333The missing metric: speculations on tusk curvature
Ian SC Parker
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1338Transition and conflict: patterns and drivers of human-elephant conflict in a changing pastoral landscape of northern Kenya
Lemayian K Leneuiyia, Robert J Smith, Juliet M King, Christopher Thouless et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1331Assessing crop palatability as a tool to mitigate elephant crop-raiding: trade-offs and strategies for subsistence farmers in Sagalla, Kenya
Sophia Weinmann, Kennedy L Leneuyia, Lucy E King, Jill M Belsky et al.
2025-12-03 · DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1325Reviews
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