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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- enthusiast약 6년if humans had the same sense of justice elephants do, there would be a lot more elephants and a lot less war
kinspower105년 이상I totally agree.
- enthusiast약 6년yeah, humans are more destructive than any other species i know of.
- sad약 6년i feel bad for them ;<
- this is sad약 6년Man, this is very sad, i love elephants! when i see a elephant i call it elephante. SAVE THE ELEPHANTES!
- ELEPHANT LOVER약 6년wow guess some people can be careless when it comes to money
- person6년 이상so sad.poor elephants
- hgfalkgjdslkfjf6년 이상elephants are my favorite animals and I am sad that people kill them for tusks
dolphincorn6년 이하Why would people killthem, would they like it if someone killed them for one of the I'd most important tools?
- viuhd6년 이상poor elephants
khlojenari6년 이상sadddddddddd
Maximus Cook6년 이상i feel so bad for those elephants i hope they get better and can live