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about 18.5% of females were naturally tuskless.

But that figure has risen to 33% among elephants born since the early 1990s.



He noted that because the tuskless trait was fatal to male offspring, it was possible that fewer elephants would be born overall. This could slow the recovery of the species, which now stands at just over 700 in the park.




"So we actually expect that this syndrome will decrease in frequency in our study population, provided that the conservation picture continues to stay as positive as it has been recently," he said.





I would say, shoot all tuskless elephants -cows and bulls - for some years and this will be out again

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Yes. The BBC article does not point that out.

I specifically wanted to shoot tuskless cows in the Zambezi valley. Even though I had tusked cow permits.

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