Early Findings Show The Elephants Are Evolved Without Tooth ...
Poachers killed or crippled elephants for molars caused a significant reduction in the world's elephant population.
According to the new study, the smuggling activity put so much pressure on the elephant population in Mozambique that it started to affect evolution. Historically, only 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants are congenitally toothless; now about a third of the population is in this state.
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Joyce Poole, an expert in elephant behavior, says this, but not yet published research.
. There has been a heavy flooding pressure on a population before, pop Poole told the National Geographic. Over time, with the elderly population, the proportion of toothless females began to rise. Zamanla
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Other researchers confirmed the case outside Mozambique. According to National Geographic, in the early 2000s, 98 percent of about 200 female elephants in Addo National Elephant Park in South Africa were toothless.
This case demonstrates the cruelty of poaching; but this is also a rigid example of the fact that the pressure on an ecosystem could lead to incredible adaptations from the evolutionary point of view.
