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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- cclmq6년 이상awww
- Taylor6년 이상I feel bad for them because poacher 's are hurting the new born baby elephant 's and the big ephant's.😞😞😞. They are so mean
- Ryan S6년 이상People should ban poaching, that is what I think.Elephants dont deserve to die.Elephants just want to live there life and not get poached.Elephants are big and powerful animals so they should show the poachers who they truly are because they are stronger than those mean poachers.
- Ryan S6년 이상I feel bad for elephants cuz they are cute and large!!😃
- FIRESKULL6년 이상sad but cool
- Yeeeeet6년 이상I feel bad for the elephants. It's sad that hey are only getting killed for their tusks.
- A 5th grader6년 이상I like elephants
iceskatingqueen6년 이상Aw! So cute! We really need to help them- icecreamgirl6년 이상we defently need to help them
- icecreamgirl6년 이상so cute i love elefents