While an elephant’s tusks are among its defining features and tools for living, But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have been born without ...

In Gorongosa in the 1970s, 18.5% of female elephants didn't have tusks. Now that number is 51%. Analysis from the study revealed that tuskless elephants are five times more likely to survive.

ADDO, South Africa — Through the narrow slit of the underground hide in front of the water hole, an African morning revealed itself. The sun painted the earth orange. A lion stepped out of the ...

While an elephant’s tusks are among its defining features and tools for living, But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have been born without ...

Having no tusks doesn’t appear to significantly hinder the female elephants, but this is something researchers want to study further. He said dietary analysis suggested that females without ...

In some areas 98 per cent of female elephants now have no tusks, researchers have said, compared to between two and six per cent born tuskless on average in the past.

A fractured tusk sparked an international collaboration that brought life-saving surgery, veterinary innovation and ...

Chemically, there’s no difference between a tooth and a tusk, but ivory continues to be a major business — and one that’s driving an illicit elephant poaching trade.

In most African elephant populations, as few as 2 percent of the cows lack tusks. But among Addo’s 300-odd females, the rate is 90 percent to 95 percent, a trait that has evolved rapidly over ...

They found that the females with no tusks had a genetic variation in a very specific region of the X-chromosome, which plays a role in tusk development. “Females have 2 X chromosomes.