Elephants born when mothers are stressed age faster, produce fewer offspring
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
Elephants born into stressful situations have fewer offspring and age faster, researchers have found. The scientists investigating how the process of aging affects animals made the discovery after being given access to a unique record of the lives and deaths of more than 10,000 elephants from Myanmar spanning three generations and almost a century.