{
  "id": 20225728,
  "title": "Study of 440 female elephants finds social ties fray after population losses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/study-of-440-female-elephants-finds-social-ties-fray-after-population",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-15T19:22:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/wildlife/after-tracking-more-than-440-female-asian-elephants-in-sri-lanka-for-12-years-us-researchers-found-that-population-losses-were-followed-by-a-sudden-breakdown-in-social-networks-leaving-smaller-and-more-isolated-groups/articleshow/135798317.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A study in Udawalawe National Park indicates that dwindling elephant groups result in significant social vulnerabilities. With fewer individuals, elephants transition from larger communities to smaller, more isolated factions, which impairs their capacity to nurture and feed effectively. Once a critical social threshold is exceeded, the difficulty of reversing such fragmentation intensifies.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}