Tuskless elephant

Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African ...

Autosomal candidate locus for tusklessness in Gorongosa elephants. (A to C) Scaffold 0 within African elephant chromosome 1, which highlights a ...

Going Tuskless | African Wildlife Foundation

Whereas a normal level of tusklessness in an elephant population is somewhere between 3 percent and 4 percent, according to the Ugandan report, ...

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The researchers only identified tuskless female elephants, never males. Why? The team figured out that the trait of tusklessness is likely caused by a gene ...

Tuskless Elephants Escape Poachers, but May Evolve New Problems

Although evolving to be tuskless might spare some surviving elephants from poachers, there will likely be long-term consequences for the population.

Under poaching pressure, elephants are evolving to lose their tusks

And among elephants ages five to 25, 13 percent of females are tuskless. (Smit, a doctoral candidate at the University of Stirling, in Scotland, ...

Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory poaching, a ...

Researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

The Genetics of Tusklessness in Elephants - HHMI BioInteractive

But in Gorongosa National Park, which has a history of heavy poaching, about 50% of the elephants are tuskless. To study this striking ...

Scientists pinpoint the genes for tuskless African elephants, which ...

A team of scientists, led by researchers at Princeton University, have now implicated two genes associated with mammal tooth development to be at the center of ...

Mystery of Tuskless Male African Elephant Leaves Scientists Puzzled

Save the Elephants (STE) researchers have uncovered what is believed to be the first publicly documented case of a male African elephant born without tusks.

Scientists pinpoint genes for tuskless African elephants | NSF

A US National Science Foundation-supported study led by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Idaho has found that two genes associated ...

Princeton scientists identify genes behind tusklessness in African ...

“Because elephants are a keystone species, changes in what they eat can affect the entire landscape, so a high rate of tusklessness in an ...

Disturbing Answers to the Mystery of Tuskless Female Elephants

Tusklessness, according to a new paper in Science, can be attributed in large part to a dominant mutation on the X chromosome—a genetic change ...

Tuskless Elephants Evolved to Escape Poachers - Discovery

After being targeted by ivory poachers in Mozambique, elephants are being born without tusks at an increasing rate.

Developing an Explanation for Tuskless Elephants Educator Materials

Why are there so many tuskless females in the Gorongosa elephant population? To answer this question, this activity leads students through three parts: 1.

Tuskless Elephants are a Result of Poaching, U of I Researcher Says

Ryan Long — a University of Idaho professor — was among researchers to learn that female elephants in populations where ivory poaching is rampant are more ...

Elephant poaching has shaped the evolution of tuskless elephant ...

Recent studies suggest that, as a result of poaching, human beings are redefining the African elephant's evolutionary inheritance.

Tuskless Elephants - Shane Campbell-Staton

After intense hunting during the civil war, 50% of the surviving female elephants in Gorongosa were tuskless.

Poaching and tuskless elephants – the scientific confirmation

The new study, published in Science, methodically demonstrates the devastating effects of poaching on the elephants in Gorongosa National Park ...

Mozambique: Tuskless elephant evolution linked to ivory hunting

Scientists say poaching during Mozambique's civil war led to more females being born without tusks.

Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants, study finds

Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants, study finds ... Ivory poaching over decades has led to the evolution of tuskless ...