Elephants Without Tusks
I have worked with forest elephants for 15 years and have never seen a tuskless forest elephant. Kock highlighted one other peculiarity from his research on the effects of poaching on forest elephants. Large Tusked Elephants Are In Decline Need To Be Protected From Trophy Hunting And Poaching Says Researcher Africa Geographic But those numbers dwindled to triple digits following the civil war. Elephants without tusks . Where poaching occurs elephants without tusks are more likely to survive than those with tusks. Even from a distance it was easy to tell they were females. Their lack of tusks has allowed them to fare better than African elephants poached at alarming rates for the global ivory market. Savanna-dwelling elephants are the mammals most of us think of when we picture elephants with their hulking bodies and massive curvaceous tusks. In Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa poaching pressure has resulted in an astounding 98 per cent of the 174 female elephant...