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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- donkey kong6년 이상why do poachers do this *cry*
itzsava76년 이상Awwww ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT KILLED ELEPHANTS MEAN i love elephants that was just mean :(- elephants6년 이상i fell so sad for the elephants.
- Angel6년 이상You know what - I think that poaching is a terrible thing to do. Like, why do it even when selling ivory is illegal? Someone needs to have a chat with these poachers, and show them what's going on. And if they don't care, we should be strict with them! We should stop them from being allowed to poach, and have them under control 24/7. We need to start taking action, because there's a lot of elephant lovers, like me! :(
- Kyra Jacobs6년 이상This is crazy it’s going to affect how they get tree roots and bark like
- Isaiah Frias6년 이상sooner or later all the species in the world will die. for example the snow leopard is endangered. there is only like a few hundred left. and they are still dying because of us, poaching
- Ellefant6년 이상I really wish poachers would stop. What are you trying to do? Kill every elephant until they all die out and than there are no more left for you What a rotten group of people poachers are. I hope they stop, realize their mistakes and have to live with the fact that it's there fault that there are not so many elephants anymore. Rotten times we live in. - Elle Francsics.
- Elephant 6년 이상This is SUCH an amazing article! This is why evil never wins! Good perseveres!!!
- :(6년 이상This is sad
- blllhihahi6년 이상Poor baby's!