![]() ![]() ![]() The tuskless female elephants passed on their genes, resulting in about half of the elephants being tuskless, and about two-thirds of the offspring being female, per AP.The elephant population as a whole decreased by more than 90% due to the war, according to researchers.īetween the lines: The significant reduction in the elephant population after the war "resulted in a phenotype of the species that had a better chance of survival - specifically, female elephants," ABC News reports. After the war, half of the females were naturally tuskless, while before the war, less than a fifth lacked tusks.During the Mozambican civil war from 1977 to 1992, fighters slaughtered elephants for ivory to support war efforts, leading to the reduction of elephants with tusks, per AP.Ivory poaching in Mozambique led to a "rapid evolution" of tuskless African elephants, according to a study published Thursday in Science magazine.ĭriving the news: Years of poaching in Mozambique has led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks, which are used by the animals to dig for water and strip bark for food, according to the Associated Press. ![]()
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