Why no tusks? Poaching tips scales of elephant evolution
WASHINGTON (AP) — A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability.
Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, spent most of his career researching lizards.
Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks
Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks