Lactational anestrus

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Records about Lactational anestrus from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Lactational anestrus: [see also: inter-calf interval] (Hanks '1972b:'18; Williamson '1976:90) period during lactation in which a female does not come into estrus and, therefore, does not conceive. Usually lasts 2-4 yrs, resulting in 4-6 year interval between births (extreme intervals can be much wider, depending on environmentd conditions).

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Lactational anestrus. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=115. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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