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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- cclmq7년 이하awww
- Taylor7년 이하I 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 S7년 이하People 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 S7년 이하I feel bad for elephants cuz they are cute and large!!😃
- FIRESKULL7년 이하sad but cool
- Yeeeeet7년 이하I feel bad for the elephants. It's sad that hey are only getting killed for their tusks.
- A 5th grader7년 이하I like elephants
iceskatingqueen7년 이하Aw! So cute! We really need to help them- icecreamgirl7년 이하we defently need to help them
- icecreamgirl7년 이하so cute i love elefents