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Elephants avoid costly mountaineering Jake Wall, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Fritz Vollrath  Current Biology  Volume 16, Issue 14, Pages R527-R529 (July 2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.06.049 Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Koitogor and the Samburu elephants. (A) Koitogor Mountain – a prominent feature of the Samburu Landscape rising 300 m above the adjacent plain. (B) Three-dimensional model of Koitogor with individual elephant tracks shown as coloured lines. (C) NDVI image (February 2000) demonstrating that even in the dry season (February 2000) the hill (outlined) is greener than the plains although not the river banks (bottom). (D) Energy calculations for the costs of ascending Koitogor (grey, map topography) for a 100 kg animal (middle) and a 5000 kg elephant (top) with the colour coding indicating the basic cost of ascent from green to red (for details see text and Figure 2 legend, and the Supplemental data). Current Biology 2006 16, R527-R529DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2006.06.049) Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Energy ‘scapes’ depicting the predicted costs of climbing for a lightweight (100 kg) and a heavyweight (5 ton) mammal moving in the Samburu environment. (A) Topographical two-dimensional map showing energy expenditure required to lift the animal's weight. (B) Three-dimensional energy maps illustrating how costly the 5 ton elephant (upper map) would find the terrain. Current Biology 2006 16, R527-R529DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2006.06.049) Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions