![]() More perplexing, two-thirds of their offspring were female. About half their daughters were tuskless. Although trustlessness was once rare in African savannah elephants, it’s become more common - like a rare eye color becoming widespread.Īfter the war, those tuskless surviving females passed on their genes with expected, as well as surprising, results. Like eye colour in humans, genes are responsible for whether elephants inherit tusks from their parents. The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless - they simply never developed tusks - while before the war, less than a fifth lacked tusks. ![]() This undated photo provided by ElephantVoices in October 2021 shows some of the tuskless elephants in the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. ![]()
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