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Accepted Paper:
Animal self-medication: the case of Asian elephant feeding observations by mahout in Chumphon province – Thailand
Jean-Marc Dubost
(PALOC (IRD/MNHN-Paris))
Paper short abstract:
Some Asian elephant feeding behavior are interpreted by local people in Chumphon province as self-medication behavior. Among the plants involved some are also used by humans for medicinal purpose, raising the question of TMK input from the observation of animals.
Paper long abstract:
In the course of an ethnobotanic survey carried out in Chumphon province - Thailand, species of plants eaten by domestic Asian elephants were collected in forest and identified. The mahouts with whom we worked distinguish plant intake from elephants feeding themselves in the forest according to two categories: feed intake and medicinal intake. Some of the species identified as elephant medicinal plants are also used by humans as tonics or for other medicinal purpose, which raises the question of possible TMK input from the observation of animals.