A new study finds that wild orphaned elephants who live among same-aged peers have lower stress levels than elephants who don't
. About 36,000 remain in Kenya, according to a 2021 national census.
Generally, higher levels would be associated with higher stress, but a one-off sample that shows high levels is inconclusive, Parker explains, because the elephants “could have just come across a lion earlier in the day.” Between 2015 and 2016, the team collected and tested 496 dung samples from 37 juvenile female elephants: 25 of which had been orphaned, and 12 that had not. The orphaned elephants were an average age of five years old when they lost their mothers.
The findings also fit with previous social research in African elephants, Parker says. “Orphans increase interaction with their age mates after their mother’s death.” She notes that dominance is structured by age in elephants: Older elephants may outrank younger elephants when it comes to food, for example, but peers are generally equals.Parker works with orphaned elephants at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, an orphanage in northern Kenya that rehabilitates and releases young elephants. .
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