Poole had previously seen other cases of elephant populations with a disproportionately large number of tuskless females after intense poaching, including in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

In at least two national parks in Africa, where poaching has been a huge problem, most female elephants are now born without tusks. Until the 1990s Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was home ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — An elephant orphanage in Kenya is seeing an upsurge in orphaned elephants brought there because of the poaching crisis occurring across Africa, the founder said Wednesday.

An elephant is pictured in Tsavo East National Park in southern Kenya on Jan. 31, 2013. (Ivan Lieman/AFP/Getty) ...

The elephant survey data gave them an idea where to look: Because the tuskless elephants were female, they focused on the X chromosome. (Females have two X chromosomes; males have one X and one Y ...

Poaching tips scales of elephant evolution By: Christina Larson, The Associated Press Posted: 2:38 PM CDT Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 Last Modified: 5:08 PM CDT Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 ...

While tusklessness was once a rare trait in African savannah elephants, it’s become more common. That's because tuskless females are more likely to survive intense poaching and pass their genes ...

It examined the impacts of ivory poaching during the Mozambican Civil War (1977 to 1992) on the evolution of African savanna elephants in Gorongosa National Park.

While tusklessness was once a rare trait in African savannah elephants, it’s become more common. That's because tuskless females are more likely to survive intense poaching and pass their genes ...