Forest elephants need 100 years to rally from poaching

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

Because forest elephants are one of 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, they give birth only once every five […]

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