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The Multifaceted Role of Elephant Tusks: Tools, Weapons, and Cultural Symbols
Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...
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Ivory Worship
This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON’S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK ...
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Misha lived in zoos, but the elephant’s tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations
Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. University of Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or ...
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African Elephants and Climate Change
The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...
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Suspects arrested for trafficking 44 ivory tusks
Cameroon has increased law enforcement in the area around Lobéké and Nki National Parks recently in response to high levels of elephant poaching and ivory trade. “This is the second time this year ...