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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- MOMO CHEESE6년 이상I don't like when things are killed just for their tusks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Say wath girl!6년 이상SAVE THE ELEPHANTS!
shrimpycheese6년 이상your right
- 56789106년 이상protect the baby
- Addison Wilson6년 이상They don't even care what danger you are putting these poor elephants in! All you want is their tusks!
- Addison Wilson6년 이상Poacher's should stop killing these elephants. Animals are no different than humans and should not be treated differently. Their tusks are part of them. Poacher's killing elephants Should NOT BE LEGAL! This is unfair to their population soon they will be endangered and then extinct. No more killing elephants!
wolfdog6년 이상It is illegal, and while we should respect animals we shouldn't treat them as equal as human beings.
- oh yeah yeah6년 이상why are they doing this why do they need tusks
- 122346년 이상POACHING SHOULD BE BAND
- 10101016년 이상SAVE THE ELEPHANTS
- hey_im12346년 이상I feel so bad for the sad elephants that are being killed only for their tusks
- alondra6년 이상i hope the poacher will stop killing the elephants they wouldnt like i tif they did it to them if they dont the will get no more tucks and that is what they want