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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- Hi6년 이상But all this is because of governmental bodies. They don’t provide their citizen with job and basic life requirements which forces the citizen to turn into illegal activities to earn money.
- ava6년 이상whyy . poor little elephants.:c
- N6년 이상I am very mad!!!!!!!! Please Stop Poeching!!!!!!!!
- Adeline6년 이상I am MAD!!!!!!!😠 Please Stop!!!!!
- Apersonlolololo6년 이상that is horrible
- yeeter1016년 이상i cant belive they would do that
- always here6년 이상its sad the eliphants die :(
iluvbirdies6년 이상people should not do this because 1. its totally illegal 2. poor elephants! BUT... i dont think just because people DO take their tusks they will evolve to not have them. That only happens when the animal environment changes and they need t change to adapt to the new environment. Here, that is not the case. Elephants NEED their tusks to fight and stuff so they wont evolve not to have tusks. those elephants that were born without them surely had a problem in their DNA or a disorder, but not evolving.
wolfdog6년 이상1.) Only males fight 2.) An animal also evolves because of predators
- Pandacorn🐼6년 이상I love elephants 🐘 why would they do that 😫😩😱😢😥😓😭😪
- Purple heart6년 이상Poor elephants!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭