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    Science: ivory hunting promotes the evolution of toothless elephants

    • Last Update: 2021-11-02
    • Source: Internet
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    In areas where ivory poaching is prevalent, African elephants with tusks are hunted intensively, and elephants without ivory have an advantage in survival


    From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, the ivory trade was used to fund the civil war in Mozambique


    Rapid evolution

    Previously, hunting was thought to be the cause of rapid changes in animals


    Campbell-Staton and his colleagues noticed that only female elephants have no ivory


    For elephants, choosing a female elephant without ivory may have other chain reactions


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