Understanding the evolutionary consequences of wildlife exploitation is increasingly
important as harvesting becomes more efficient. We examined the impacts of ivory poaching …

Harvesting of large mammals is usually not random, and directional selection has been
identified as the main cause of rapid evolution. However, selective harvesting in meat and …

East African elephants have been hunted for their ivory for millennia but the nineteenth
century witnessed strongly escalating demand from Europe and North America. It has been …

During over 30 years of actualistic fieldwork in Zimbabwe's wildlife reserves, a range of
pathological or anomalous bone, tusk, and tooth specimens have been observed in a …

Among tetrapods, grasping is an essential function involved in many vital behaviours. The
selective pressures that led to this function were widely investigated in species with …

During the period of 1958 and 1960, the richest sample of Palaeoloxodon ex gr. P. falconeri
(104 individuals) was recovered from Spinagallo cave (Syracuse, Hyblean Plateau, SE …

Odontology of Gomphotherium angustidens (Cuvier, 1817)(Proboscidea, Mammalia): data
from the Middle Miocene locality of En Péjouan (Gers, France). The dental anatomy of …

Despite the 1989 ivory trade ban, elephants continue to be killed to harvest their tusks for
ivory. Since 2008, this poaching has increased to unprecedented levels driven by consumer …

The initial settlement of the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape by Zhizo ceramic-producing
farmers around AD 900 is said to be linked to the large elephant population that the region …

Evidence for brain and behavioral laterality is ubiquitous across the animal kingdom,
ranging from invertebrates to humans. The elephant (Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana …