Janine Brown, Ph.D.
Janine Brown is a research physiologist and heads the endocrinology laboratory at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI). Brown is devoted to increasing knowledge that
March 23, 2020
Asian Elephant
To Boldly Go Where Pachyderm Conservation Has Never Gone Before
Crows memorize human faces. Orcas express mourning. And that cockroach that skittered across your kitchen counter the other day? According to researchers in Belgium, that little
December 11, 2019
An Elephant Feat
13,000 pounds balanced on 18 pachyderm toes. This sums up just one challenge faced by Asian elephants as they move their huge bodies, sometimes across
August 28, 2019
Track and Test Asian Elephants
Elephants out of a job? It might sound like a joke, but for critically endangered Asian elephants trained to work in logging camps, unemployment is
May 10, 2019
Using Unique Technology to Monitor Asian Elephant Health
Ensuring the health of endangered Asian elephants in Thailand is critical to creating a healthy population—in human care and in the wild—but a desperate area
May 10, 2017
Tracking Asian Elephants to Save Them
Fewer than 1,850 wild Asian elephants remain in Myanmar. Habitat loss, conflicts with farmers, illegal capture, and poaching have caused Asian elephant populations to fall
June 9, 2016