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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- enthusiast5년 이상if humans had the same sense of justice elephants do, there would be a lot more elephants and a lot less war
kinspower10약 5년I totally agree.
- enthusiast5년 이상yeah, humans are more destructive than any other species i know of.
- sad6년 이하i feel bad for them ;<
- this is sad6년 이하Man, this is very sad, i love elephants! when i see a elephant i call it elephante. SAVE THE ELEPHANTES!
- ELEPHANT LOVER6년 이하wow guess some people can be careless when it comes to money
- person6년 이하so sad.poor elephants
- hgfalkgjdslkfjf6년 이하elephants are my favorite animals and I am sad that people kill them for tusks
dolphincorn5년 이상Why would people killthem, would they like it if someone killed them for one of the I'd most important tools?
- viuhd6년 이하poor elephants
khlojenari6년 이하sadddddddddd
Maximus Cook약 6년i feel so bad for those elephants i hope they get better and can live