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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- pheobethedog6년 이상I really hope we find a way to help these poor creatures. I think they are so beautiful and it is not fair the way we are treating them.
- Grace312006년 이상hi people and i love animals
emy3096년 이상so sad
sushimon6년 이상Wow, that's sick that people would kill a whole elephant just for some tusks. Plus, elephants need them.
pottergoat133년 이상Yeah, the elephants would die without them!!! Leave ivory!! Who cares about ivory!!!
thepenguin6년 이상poor elephants- s@v@g36년 이상elephants are awesome shame on the people who kill them for tusks
- Billy6년 이상Sadness poor elephants
- Coolkid6년 이상This is cool that elephants have ways around poaching, but sad
- Ravenpaw6년 이상and i would do anything to save them!!!!!!!!!!!
- Ravenpaw6년 이상I love animals to!!!!