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African forest elephants are running out of fruit - Earth.com
Sep 28, 2020 ... The study revealed that a substantial decline in the body condition of the forest elephants has coincided with a drop in the productivity of ...
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Flexible skin folds help elephants stretch their trunks - Earth.com
Jan 26, 2023 ... Today's Video of the Day from Georgia Tech describes how skin plays an important role in giving elephant trunks flexibility.
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Elephant sanctuary attractions may not be as ethical as they seem ...
Nov 21, 2018 ... A report by World Animal Protection found that nearly 75% of the elephants they studied living in Asian elephant camps lived in poor conditions.
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Asian elephants don't exhibit much dominant behavior - Earth.com
Oct 11, 2016 ... The researchers found that Asian elephants showed less than one-third the amount of dominance behavior as their African counterparts.
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For Asian elephant calves, big sisters are better than big brothers ...
Sep 21, 2021 ... For Asian elephant calves, big sisters are better than big brothers ... Elephants form close-knit matrilineal family groups traditionally contain ...
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Asian elephant calls are more flexible than previously thought ...
Aug 24, 2022 ... The analysis revealed that the animals emitted their low frequency “rumbles” mainly through their trunk, or through their trunk and mouth ...
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Elephant dung feeds over 2 million beetles daily - Earth.com
Jul 29, 2024 ... Food and shelter for beetles. It's known that two pounds of elephant dung serve about 13,400 beetles with food and shelter. Considering an ...
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Elephants thrived on early African grasslands - Earth.com
Nov 15, 2021 ... The study authors explained that the cranial morphology of KNM-ER 63642 is unexpectedly advanced for an elephant of its antiquity, and indicates ...
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Study: Lifting ivory ban won't save elephants - Earth.com
Sep 20, 2016 ... The deaths of many thousands of elephants at the hands of poachers in recent years has led some to conclude that the ivory ban.
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What killed off prehistoric elephants and their relatives? - Earth.com
Jul 1, 2021 ... One hypothesis is that prehistoric elephants and other mammalian megafauna were wiped out by the ravenous hunting of early humans as we ...
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