Excessive Poaching May Be Causing African Elephants To Evolve Without Tusks
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While elephants born without tusks are not unheard of, they normally comprise just 2 to 6 percent of the herd population. However, that is not the case at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, where an astounding 33 percent of female elephants born after the country’s civil war ended in 1992, are tuskless. While that may appear to be just a coincidence, Joyce Poole, an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic Explorer, has another theory. The researcher thinks we may be witnessing an unnaturally induced evolution of the species due to the incessant poaching of the mammals for their valuable tusks.
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- wapasojulydo1년 이상wow i loved reading this
summerheart약 3년I know what they do with the tusks they carve things out of them I've seen one before in this place it's a museum that's next to the ranching and heritage center I wish they would stop poaching 😓😪- urijah2009약 4년i fell so bad
elephantlover294년 이상I watched a really sad Elephant movie once and it was about poaching and the lead to end it but in the movie an Elephant gets shot and falls to the ground! I started crying while my brother started laughing!🐘😭😠- summerheart약 3년I've seen that movie to I had to go watch a different movie because I cried so much😭
addisoncarr4년 이상i watched that too
wolfy_blue5년 이하no! plz stop poaching!
fox15685년 이하so sad i love elephants
kinspower10약 5년That is so sad! I love elephants!😭
brylee_freeman5년 이상wow- kmnkjno5년 이상poor animals
- Lincie5년 이상Poor elephants.=(