Some elephants are evolving to have no tusks as a response to brutal poaching

An elephant's tusks are among its defining features -- they help the animal lift heavy branches, topple trees, strip bark, fight, and dig holes for water and minerals.

But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park have been born without these crucial tools, and scientists say it's an evolutionary response to the brutal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks during the country's 15-year civil war.Elephant experts working in the park had begun to notice the phenomenon after the war ended in 1992.

This should be due to genetic abnormality not evolution.

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This is complete bull shit. Elephants have been born without tusk for thousands of years. Now if u want to say hunting is increasing the population of tuskless elephants, ok. If u want to call that evolution it’s disingenuous but whatever, its CNN

Wow!!

I’ve been swimming a lot lately. Hoping to have gills by next summer

15 years? Highly doubt it.

People always trying to reinforce their beliefs. This is survival of the fittest. More genes being passed down from tuskless elephants because they are not being killed

News flash.....Evolution takes thousands of years

If this wasn't bullshit, why do Jews still have to have a bris?

I’m no scientist, but I don’t think evolution at such a prominent level occurs thst fast.

Well disgusting humans will then probably find some other thing they will want to kill them for!!!

It may be in response to climate change. Green house affect.. Not in the process of evolution..

Christians would say it's God, evolution is not real 😒🤦😏😁😁

I don't agree...it is not a process of evolution....it may be in response to pollution

This is just a Lie. As always CNN. Do a real journalism

Nonsense.

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