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 ...

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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 ...

Farmers and engineers are looking at using elephant grass to manufacture biodegradable, plastic car parts. SEE WHAT'S UP ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: cbc.ca/science; ...

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 ...

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.

Elephant grass also called Pennisetum purpureum Schumach or Napier grass is a multipurpose plant. Aside from being a windbreaker for some plants, this grass provides animals with silage. It is ...

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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, ...