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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- Everardo7년 이하poachers should be stop because their will be no more elephants
200209967년 이하Totally! Maybe there should be, like, a $100,000.00 fine..?
- peerce7년 이하i am mad that they are doing this i went them to go to jail for a long time
- Punksatony Phil7년 이하I feel bad for the elephants. Poachers have no right to be so mean!
- Jimmy John7년 이하Po0r elepants arre hurt!!! I feeell so bad :(
- I am Taylor Swi7년 이하THIS IS HORRIBLE. Why are they doing this to the poor elephants :(
- I like Trains7년 이하So horrible
- Gucci goosiey7년 이하This is not good I wonder were we could find more information on this particular problem.
- 200209967년 이하I raised $150.00 to stop this from happening! Looks like it did nothing.
- 200209967년 이하I completely agree, this is terrible!
fromthesource7년 이하Poor elephants. Those mean poachers only want the females' beautiful tusks. Now they might all be tuskless soon D: