Abstract
Indonesia has a high wealth of flora and fauna, wealth is necessary guarded and preserved, one of the wealth fauna owned Indonesia is Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) . This study aims to record the daily behavior of Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in Elephant Response Unit Way Kambas National Park Lampung. The method used is focal animal sampling. The method was chosen because it allows the observer to record any behavior that occurs suddenly and quickly by recording animal behavior at certain time intervals. The results obtained from six individual tame elephants that became objects named Karnangin, Aditya, Dona, Wulan, Elena, and Cory consisted of 13 daily behaviors which were dominated by eating. Daily behavior found differences on adult male elephants named Karnangin and Aditya commonly used for patrol activities and when not patrolling. Sumatran elephants need food availability like green plants in their habitat, because less perfect digestion of these animals requires very large amounts of food, 200 - 300 kg of biomass per day for each adult elephant tail or 5-10% of his body weight.Keywords: Daily Behavior, Focal Animal Sampling, Sumatran Elephants
Highlights
Indonesia has a high wealth of flora and fauna, wealth is necessary guarded and preserved, one of the wealth fauna owned Indonesia is Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus)
This study aims to record the daily behavior of Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in Elephant Response Unit Way Kambas National Park Lampung
The results obtained from six individual tame elephants that became objects named Karnangin, Aditya, Dona, Wulan, Elena, and Cory consisted of 13 daily behaviors which were dominated by eating
Summary
Mitigasi konflik dan upaya konservasi yang berkelanjutan terus dilakukan oleh Elephant Respon Unit di Taman Nasional Way Kambas. Gajah pada dasarnya sangat selektif dalam memilih habitatnya, karena satwa ini memiliki kepekaan yang tinggi dalam memperhitungkan berbagai kondisi habitat, misalnya ketersediaan tempat. Sebagai satwa yang dilindungi dan patut untuk dilestarikan maka gajah sumatera perlu mendapatkan perhatian khusus. Belum adanya data mengenai perilaku harian gajah jinak di Elephant. Nasional Way Kambas, penelitian mengenai perilaku harian gajah sumatera ini perlu untuk dilakukan sebagai bahan evaluasi serta bahan pertimbangan rencana dari kegiatan konservasi terhadap perlakuan yang perlu diberikan pada gajah sumatera. Hal ini demi kelangsungan hidup satwa secara lestari dan dapat mempermudah dalam melihat perkembangan perilaku harian gajah sumatera. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendata perilaku harian Gajah sumatranus) di Elephant Respon Unit
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