Implications for conservation
Poaching pressures may seriously lower the infant-to-female ratio by affecting birth rates and
disturbing the demographic structure, inhibiting the long-term survival of elephants [46, 47].
The skewed ratios of adult female to young may be due to heavy poaching pressures over a long
period of time in the BRT. Likewise the 1:4.1 adult male to adult female ratio in BRT also reflects