The world's population of elephants is nearing a critical point. Karl Mathiesen explains why there has never been a more dangerous time to be an elephantThe largest of all land beasts, elephants are thundering, trumpeting six-tonne monuments to the wonder of evolution. From the tip of that distinctive trunk with its 100,000 dextrous muscles; to their outsize ears that flap the heat away; to the complex matriarchal societies and the mourning of their dead; to the points of their ivory tusks, designed to defend, but ultimately the cause of their ruin. Continue reading...
Elephants on the path to extinction - the facts
12. srpna 2016 7:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/12/elephants-on-the-path-to-extinction-the-facts
Zdroj: The Guardian
