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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tyty20062약 6년Elephants percents is going down if we keep on killing them for their tusk
ipetra_pie56년 이상I don't know what goes through peoples heads when they do this stuff but it needs to stop. And why would they give such a horrible thing a name? They should just get rid of it.
sushimon약 6년Yesssss!!😀
sosyjetejajopa6년 이상My Grandmother is from Africa and its makes her so sad when so many of these elephants die. I love animals and I feel bad. People that do this for money, just think from the elephants perspective. How would you like it being killed for your tusks. If I was an elephant I would say HOW RUDE!
arwen_cat6년 이상this is one of the saddest things i've read in a while :(- anoymus6년 이상elephants are useless
- arwen_cat6년 이상there not useless
- ipetra_pie56년 이상they are pretty useless but that doesn't give us a right to hurt them
- Pusheen6년 이상DONT KILL THE ELEPHANTS 😭😭😭😭😭😭
- Pusheen6년 이상Wow this is really really cool
- dogo fan 6년 이상what pupputboy64 said
- YOU NOW WHOW6년 이상WHY YOUR A MEANY DON/T KILL ELEPHANTS!!!!!
- PUPPUTBOY646년 이상Don't kill ELEPHANTS!!