Poached elephants evolve without tusks

Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of rampant poaching in Africa, researchers have discovered. The rare tuskless genetic condition in Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique has become far more common after years of ruthless activity by ivory hunters. About 90 per cent of the country’s elephant population was slaughtered between 1977 to 1992. After the war, those tuskless surviving females passed on their genes and about half of their daughters were tuskless.