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UCLA researchers attempt to understand tusklessness among Mozambique elephants

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A civil war has left a disproportionate number of elephants in Mozambique without tusks. UCLA researchers are trying to figure out why. Shane Campbell-Staton, an ecology and evolutionary biology assistant professor, studies female elephants in Gorongosa National Park, an area ravaged by the country’s nearly 16-year civil war.

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UCLA researchers attempt to understand tusklessness among Mozambique elephants

By Phoebe Miller

Dec. 8, 2018 12:16 p.m.