Study documents a lost century for forest elephants
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 19:11
in Biology & Nature
Because forest elephants are one the slowest reproducing mammals in the world, it will take almost a century for them to recover from the intense poaching they have suffered since 2002. Not only does it take more than two decades for female forest elephants to begin reproducing, but they also give birth only once every five to six years.