For more than a year, a herd of elephants has been on a mysterious journey through southern China. Now, after what is likely the longest-ever trip made by elephants in the country, the wanderers may finally be heading home. The 14-strong herd was guided across the Yuanjiang river in the province of […]
A strange thing has been observed among the young female elephants of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park: About a third of them never developed tusks. While tusklessness is not unheard of in female African elephants, normally it would only happen in about two to four percent of them. The […]
The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the government announced Monday. The elephants in the Seronga area died from a neurological disorder that appears to have been caused by drinking water tainted […]
At Dalhousie University, Lindy Weilgart has been studying underwater noise for 25 years. Given all the stressors on the ocean, from pollution to absorbing most of the carbon dioxide we’re putting in the atmosphere, we no longer have the luxury of not being precautionary, she says. Temperatures are […]
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