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Stop eating seafood. Stop coveting ivory. Yay for the wolverines.
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Elephants:
A particular elephant
This particular elephant was one of the nicest elephants I've ever met. click for a larger picture I was leading a tour group in the vicinity of the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The local guide suggested that we could take a walk along...
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Mammoth DNA Sequence
The genome of the extinct woolley mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) has been sequenced, and reported in Nature. This confirms that elephant genomes are large, like the elephants themselves. It confirms previously proposed relationships amongst the elephants (see phylogeny below) and refines the known phylogeny. Interpopulation differences...
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Elephants Are Not Ethnic-Blind
I have had this experience. I've traveled literally hundreds of kilometers by foot together with Efe (Pygmy) hunters in the Ituri Forest. We see very few animals. The few we do see are attacked, killed, and eaten. Well, a lot of them actually get away,...
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Elephants Were Aquatic
That elephants have an aquatic ancestry has been suspected for some time now. Moreover, the idea of elephant aquatic origins and elephant origins in general is part of a growing realization that many of the world's aquatic mammals originated in a couple of regions of...
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Did sexist white males cause the extinction of the woolly mammoth, or was it climate change?
Ever since 3,599 years ago humans have been asking the question "Why did our furry elephant go extinct?" What caused the woolly mammoth's (not to be confused with the also-woolly mastodon) extinction? Climate warming in the Holocene might have driven the extinction of this cold-adapted...
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Elephants Are Not Ethnic-Blind
I have had this experience. I've traveled literally hundreds of kilometers by foot together with Efe (Pygmy) hunters in the Ituri Forest. We see very few animals. The few we do see are attacked, killed, and eaten. Well, a lot of them actually get away,...
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Hunting Wolves; Killing Elephants...
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How to catch a herd of elephants
You need: a pair of binoculars a pair of tweezers a bottle a cork an elephant call....
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Elephants Are Not Ethnic-Blind
Category: Elephants
I have had this experience. I've traveled literally hundreds of kilometers by foot together with Efe (Pygmy) hunters in the Ituri Forest. We see very few animals. The few we do see are attacked, killed, and eaten. Well, a lot of them actually get away,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:23 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
