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5 days ago · To obtain suitable photographs of elephants for group type identification, the camera traps were mounted on trees or erected posts at varying heights between 1–3 m depending on the pathway slope. The height of the camera > 1 m was to ensure the best capture of the head, pinnae, and tusks of elephants (Smit et al. 2019). Each pathway had at ...
19 hours ago · “The targeted elephants were among the largest, oldest bulls,” a group of conservationists wrote in a letter decrying their loss that was published in the journal Science in June. They represented “one of the last gene pools for enormous ivory and the source of the largest tusks ever collected”.
3 days ago · As a keystone species, elephants not only shape ecosystems for other wildlife — by creating watering holes with their tusks, for example, and dispersing seeds in their droppings — but their ...
1 day ago · Storing elephant tusks may seem like a tempting idea, but it also raises suspicions that some of the contraband is being smuggled out of the country. Many stored tusks lack DNA data, historical records, and digital tracking, compromising the integrity of conservation efforts.
19 hours ago · A mastodon ( mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for "mammoth"), which, strictly defined, was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family Elephantidae ).
4 days ago · The latest incident happened within the Chepkinoyo area, Elgeyo Marakwet where police raided the house of a local and recovered two elephant tusks weighing 30 kilos and valued at Sh3 million. The ...
1 day ago · Elephants with tusks that touch the ground are a natural rarity, and they are under constant threat from poachers seeking ivory and trophy hunters actively targeting tuskers (outside of Kenya). We invite you to support Tsavo Trust by donating to their aerial and ground monitoring teams, who protect these magnificent elephants.
