Paris - Once they developed a taste for grass, the ancestors of today's elephants swiftly broadened their leaf-only diet and placed their progeny on a new evolutionary track, a study said on Wednesday ...

Case study - the role of behaviour in elephant evolution. Carbon isotope analysis suggests that early elephant species switched to a grass-dominated diet around eight million years ago, despite the ...

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Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

Analysis - Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant.

Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) has emerged as a vital forage resource, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, due to its high biomass yield and adaptability to diverse agronomic ...

Species behaviour has the potential to lead morphological evolution, by placing the organism under novel selection pressures. Many adaptations of living species could have originated in this way, ...