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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- emma6년 이상aww no! poor elaphants!
- elephantlover696년 이상i luv elephants
- djp116년 이상i can't believe it! i don't want that to happen!
- em6년 이상i love Elephants so much
- Lil Moop6년 이상Although they do need their tusks for survival if elephants stopped being born with tusks people wouldn't have any use with them and would leave them alone because they would be "worthless"
- i luv sloths6년 이상thats just wrong i mean how would people like it if animals pullof our legs
- Cutepoop6년 이상This is wrong
- Alexadra 6년 이상it so they don't get hunted by people that want to by the tusk
- Plantz6년 이상WHYYYYYYYY JUST why POOR ELEPHANTSAS
- Rad Rara6년 이상This is sad :(