Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
One of nature’s great tragedies is how poachers heartlessly stalk and kill beautiful animals for trophies. Of all the targeted animals, probably the most recognized are the elephants that are killed for their tusks. In fact, so many elephants are killed every year for their ivory that elephants are starting to be born tuskless.
That’s right – they’re evolving.
Usually evolution takes many thousands or millions of years, but it looks like humans can change that. It only took a few decades of extreme poaching pressure on elephant populations before the animals started losing…
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