Raw data for Revathe T and Vidya TNC (2025) "Young Asian elephant calves show differentiated social relationships with conspecifics", https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.27.650831v2

This is a dataset of spatial and behavioural interactions between young calves (<6 months old) and conspecific females (mothers, allomothers, other females) in a wild Asian elephant population in Nagarahole and Bandipur National Parks, southern India. Data on calf-conspecific proximity contacts, calf-conspecific proximity, initiation and termination of calf-conspecific interactions, and responses shown towards these interactions are included.