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brainsandbeauty
· 9 years ago
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And they look fabulous
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sirspacedino
· 9 years ago
I was gonna say that!
guest
· 9 years ago
It's actually photoshopped. The process will mean the animal has to be sedated. It's really dangerous to sedate a wild animal because nobody knows how they'll react and they might stop breathing or their heart stops beating. Also, horns and tusks grow continually and even just a little bit of undyed ivory will be worth money to the poacher, and so rangers and conservationists would have to track and sedate the animals on a daily basis, which is super expensive and time-consuming. It's a good thought, but there are plenty of experts who agree this will not be effective. (Source: wonderousnature on instagram)
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deleted
· 9 years ago
Male Asian elephants have begun to evolve to no longer grow tusks. In some places nearly half of the male Asian elephants are tuskless
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needmorec4
· 9 years ago
Um are you sure? I thought evolving a species took like, ya know,a really damn long time. Even if we've been poaching 500 years I still don't think it still wouldn't manage to fuckin evolve.
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deleted
· 9 years ago
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/towards-a-tuskless-future-44573
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deleted
· 9 years ago
They've been hunted for their ivory for over 1000 years in Northeast Asia and Africa. The subsequent removal of the tusk gene has been over a sufficient number of generations to bring a genetic change to the population. 98% of elephants in Sri Lanka are tuskless because of this. There's even a name for tuskless male elephants: Makhna
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needmorec4
· 9 years ago
Damn... :/
deviledapple
· 9 years ago
its happening more rapidly simply because a tuskless elephant is not removed from the breeding population, making it happen at a rate similar to how humans purposely alter domestic animals, if there are 50 males to start with, 5 without tusks, and hunters kill 40 tusked ones, half the breeding population is now tuskless so pass that onto offspring, i have no idea of its a dominant trait or a recessive one, but if its dominant or co-dominant it will speed up the process of creating tuskless elephants significantly.
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guest
· 7 years ago
BRILLANT! they must do this with Rhino's as well!!
guest
· 7 years ago
I really like this idea and the justication for it.
guest
· 7 years ago
I saw this in national geographic moths ago....what a great idea!
guest
· 7 years ago
I think...they should find a way to eliminate 'rhino horn' trade.
guest
· 7 years ago
Yea!!! Something, so simple, and harmless to the elephants. Hopefully it's cost effective also.
guest
· 7 years ago
Thank God!!!! What a beautiful idea!
