African elephants are evolving into ivory because of excessive poaching

The elephants that we know are about to turn into the same new species but no longer the majestic ivory pair.

During development, many animals evolved to survive. For example, polar bears and arctic foxes have evolved to integrate easily into their surroundings, making them easier to hunt and avoid enemies.

Baby elephants cry for the dead elephant mother.

And now, against the threat of greedy, brutal poachers, African elephants are also evolving and adapting.

Many Asian countries believe that ivory in addition to decorative functions can cure diseases, enhance resistance . Although banned and without any scientific basis, it proves to be effective in medicine. but ivory is still stealthily traded in some Asian and African countries at very high prices, rather than gold. This makes the poachers eager to hunt elephants for ivory.

Poachers use small planes or helicopters to hunt and shoot down so elephants have very few opportunities to defend themselves. Therefore, they must evolve in a very special way.

According to National Geographic, African elephants are evolving to no longer ivory. Scientists in Mozambique have studied and found that recently one-third of female elephants have no ivory from birth. This number was only 2 to 4% previously.

Kenya's nature conservation force piles up the seized ivory to prepare for destruction.

Joyce Poole, an elephant behavioral researcher and one of National Geographic scientists, said that poaching has a huge impact on elephants, not only in numbers but also in terms of progress. chemical.

According to Poole, poaching gives ivory-free elephants in Gorongosa a biological advantage because hunters often focus on ivory elephants and forgive those without ivory.

Even the researchers, in areas where poaching takes place regularly, the elephant's ivory size has also decreased significantly. Comparing the ivory size of African elephants between 2005 and 2013, between 1966 and 1968, the scientists discovered that ivory decreased by 5 times the size while male ivory decreased by 3 times.

Ivory poaching has made elephants adapt in an incredibly surprising way.

By the early 2000s, 98% of about 200 female elephants living in Africa had no tusks. This is evidence that how poaching puts great pressure on elephants and its impact makes elephants adapt in an incredibly surprising way.