Unusual ancient elephant tracks had our team of fossil experts stumped – how we solved the mystery: Elephants communicate underground by generating seismic waves. Anadolu Agency Over the past 15 years, through our scientific study of tracks and traces, we have identified more than 350 fossil vertebrate tracksites from South Africa’s Cape south coast. Most …
Elephant teeth: how they evolved to cope with climate change-driven dietary shifts: Proboscideans and their tooth structures in various forms across 60 million years of evolution. Illustration by Óscar Sanisidro. Author provided (no reuse) Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, …
Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% …
Japan’s ivory market is no longer a threat to elephant populations – here’s why: Ivory poaching is threatening regional elephant populations. MPH Photos/Shutterstock Elephants feature heavily in mythology, religion and popular culture. Yet they are hunted for their ivory tusks. Ivory poaching has led to a 70% decline in African elephant numbers over the past …
Elephant conservation may be undermined by Twitter users who overlook main threats: Elephants crossing a road in Botswana poco_bw / Getty Images The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) are all highly threatened species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified poaching, …
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From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning: Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organisation) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The …
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Elephant ivory: DNA analysis offers clearest insight yet into illegal trafficking networks: Plavi011/Shutterstock Poaching rare wildlife for teeth, tusks, fur, horns and other body parts is a crime which threatens many species with extinction, but the evidence which could incriminate traffickers is often difficult to access, hard to interpret, or piecemeal. To discover more about …
A fossil cranium from Kenya tells the story of an extinct elephant species: 4.5 million-year-old cranium of the fossil elephant Loxodonta adaurora, from Ileret, Kenya, in right lateral and front views. Figure courtesy of Carol Abraczinskas, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology Some 4.5 million years ago, during the early Pliocene epoch, Kenya’s Lake Turkana …
South Africa in the news: Suspected poacher killed by elephant in Kruger Park, South Africa: An elephant trampled a suspected poacher to death this week in Africa Kruger National Park said spokesperson Isaac Phaahla …: “South Africa” – BingNews Taylor returns for ICC qualifiers: The regional selectors have named a 15-member squad for West Indies …
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Solar Power – Let’s Talk About the MASSIVE Elephant in the Room: First though the basis for our little chat: As Human beings we tend to look up to and expect food, shelter, warmth and love from our parents and from those who are bigger, older and wiser than us. Sure, we go through times …
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