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Elephants successfully avoid landmines

By clock on March 25, 2008.

Elephants avoiding mines:

Eliminated from Angola during more than two decades of civil war, herds of African elephants are crossing heavily mined fields as they recolonize Angola from neighboring Namibia and Botswana.

But miraculously, they are avoiding the mines entirely, according to researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst who are tracking them via global positioning system satellites.

Hat-tip.

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