Female African elephants in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park have been born without their ever-crucial ivory tusks, and scientists are saying it's an evolutionary result of the brutal poaching ...

Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching ...

In most African elephant populations, as few as 2 percent of the cows lack tusks. But among Addo’s 300-odd females, the rate is 90 percent to 95 percent, a trait that has evolved rapidly over ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

After centuries of being hunted by humans for ivory, African elephants are evolving to be tuskless. As National Geographic reports, the tusks on male elephants — a sign of virility among the ...

African elephants are evolving to lose their tusks, giving ivory poachers a disadvantage.According to National Geographic, 32 percent of female elephants born at Mozambique’s Gorongosa Read More ...

Normally, only 2% to 6% of Africa’s elephants are born tuskless. Now, according to head of the Elephant Voices charity Joyce Poole, in some regions 98% of female elephants have no tusks.

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On 27 November 2016, several news outlets reported that thanks to a form of artificial selection, an increasing number of elephants in Africa are now born either without tusks or with far smaller ...

During the Mozambican civil war, both sides financed their efforts by poaching elephants for ivory. Now, scientists say that drove some elephants to evolve tusklessness. Poachers killed African ...

Ivory poaching has led to a "rapid evolution" of tuskless African elephants, as elephants without tusks were far more likely to survive during the height of the ivory trade, according to new research.

ADDO, South Africa — Through the narrow slit of the underground hide in front of the water hole, an African morning revealed itself. The sun painted the earth orange. A lion stepped out of the ...