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 ...

African elephants are being born without tusks due to poaching, researchers say. The species could become extinct in some areas, with those elephants that do survive evolving to be almost ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head ...

The tusks were cut from the faces of several hundred dead African elephants. Major ivory busts also took place this year in Taiwan, Singapore, Kenya, India, Japan and the Philippines, says Crawford.

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 ...

Poachers killed African elephants for their tusks. So elephants stopped growing them During the Mozambican civil war, both sides financed their efforts by poaching elephants for ivory.

Nature: Elephants 02:13. Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks.

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 ...