Population of older female elephants different from the younger female elephants is described below.
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- THE OLDEST ELEPHANTS wandering Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park bear the indelible markings of the civil war that gripped the country for 15 years: Many are tuskless. They’re the lone survivors of a conflict that killed about 90 percent of these beleaguered animals, slaughtered for ivory to finance weapons and for meat to feed the fighters.
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Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.
- New, as yet unpublished, research she’s compiled indicates that of the 200 known adult females, 51 percent of those that survived the war—animals 25 years or older—are tuskless. And 32 percent of the female elephants born since the war are tuskless.
- A male elephant’s tusks are bigger and heavier than those of a female of the same age, says Poole, who serves as scientific director of a nonprofit called ElephantVoices. “But once there’s been heavy poaching pressure on a population, then the poachers start to focus on the older females as well,” she explains. “Over time, with the older age population, you start to get this really higher proportion of tuskless females.”
- “The prevalence of tusklessness in Addo is truly remarkable and underscores the fact that high levels of poaching pressure can do more than just remove individuals from a population,” says Ryan Long, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Idaho and a National Geographic Explorer. The “consequences of such dramatic changes in elephant populations are only just beginning to be explored.”
Animals need to eat plants so that predators can eat the animals who eat plants, they depend on each other to be links in the food chain for example some animals eat plants and others eat animals that eat plants on top of that plants produce oxygen for animals and animals produce co2 for the plants
B) Melting ice would increase the growing season because the temperatures would increase, animals living in certain areas would migrate to others, and certain species that lived on the ice would die.
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Arboviral diseases are arthropod borne, they can produce central nervous system illnesses, transmitted by mosquito bites and also produce acute self limiting fevers.
Explanation: Arboviruses are viruses that are harboured by arthropods which includes mosquitoes, they have the capacity to cause illnesses which are acute and self limiting(it has the ability to resolve on its own without treatment). It has also been found to cause illnesses to the central nervous system(the brain and the spinal cord).
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Before life began on the planet, Earth's atmosphere was largely made up of nitrogen and carbon dioxide gases. After photosynthesizing organisms multiplied on Earth's surface and in the oceans, much of the carbon dioxide was replaced with oxygen.
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