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  1. the Environmental Sciences Graduate Programme and the Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA

    G. A. Bradshaw

  2. the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Allan N. Schore

  3. the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington DC, USA

    Janine L. Brown

  4. the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP), Nairobi, Kenya

    Joyce H. Poole & Cynthia J. Moss

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