10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUSKLESS»
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1
A Companion to Global Environmental History
Ivory hunters had no motive to shoot tuskless elephants, so these elephants
survived. In evolutionary terms, hunters had reversed selective pressures. Before
heavy human hunting, selection favored tusked elephants, which had a higher ...
J. R. McNeill, Erin Stewart Mauldin, 2012
2
Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant ...
Tuskless ignored them and kept coming. The campers backed off and fled for
their car. They huddled inside with all the doors and windows closed, watching
helplessly as Tuskless, joined by her calf and Teddy, Tonie, and Tilly, ate every
bit of ...
3
The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and ...
Homozygous dominant TT and heterozygous Tt individuals possess tusks, while
homozygous recessive tt individuals are tuskless. Ralph Tiedemann and Fred
Kurt, who modeled Asian elephants, made a similar assumption with the
additional ...
Center for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Raman Sukumar Associate Professor of Ecology, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, 2003
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Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to ...
Ivory hunting inflicted high mortality on tusked elephants. Once-rare tusk- less
elephants like this one became common because they survived hunting. Tusk-
lessness is a genetic trait, so the offspring of tuskless parents are usually tuskless
.
5
A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages
'tuskless elephant, beardless man', "na- f. 'pudendum muliebre before growth of
hair' lex. [PMWS 40 connects with kuntha- *— Mu., but rather □*— Drav. (Tel.
mokkadi 'elephant with short tusks', Tarn. mokku 'bluntness', mokkan 'stout
person ...
6
Conservation of Exploited Species
groups of elephants in the wild suggest that crosses between tusked males and
tuskless females give rise to tusked sons and tuskless daughters; there is
evidently a genetic basis for the presence and absence of tusks in females that is
in part ...
John D. Reynolds (Ph. D.), 2001
7
Battle for the President's Elephants: Life, Lunacy and ...
I've known Eileen's tuskless daughter, Echo, since she was just a youngster. With
a distinctive hole in the top, outer edge of her left ear, she's currently the only
tuskless elephant in the extended E family (numbering more than 30), which is an
...
8
Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants
Apparently equal-aged, the largest individuals, whom we called Nervous
Tuskless and Eleanor, were as different in character as Mutt and Jeff. Eleanor
was easygoing and even-tempered: she spent as much time as the younger
elephants ...
9
East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, ...
There is also a great measure of individual variation and it is interesting to
compare the morphology of tusked and tuskless elephants. The relative positions
of the activities of the skull are altered in every case (opposite). Facing page: left
...
10
Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa:
This elephant wasa fine big bull, andhis tusks werequite perfect,and weigheda
little more than those ofthe other I had so fortunately recovered, as togetherthey
turned thescale at 88 lbs. Iwill here record my belief that the tuskless bullIsaw ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUSKLESS»
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Its whiskery face reminded me of a tuskless walrus. Nonplussed and not knowing how to swim backward, I held as still as I could. The manatee surveyed me ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
The Depths of Animal Grief
Cynthia Moss, director of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya, told me of a wonderful matriarch named Big Tuskless. She died of natural causes, ... «NOVA Next, Jul 15»
One hundred years of Indian summers
Two similar objects spark off Ferdinand Mount's 700-page slice of Indian history: also ebony, now tuskless, but large enough for a child to ride on. The Mount ... «Herald Scotland, Mar 15»
Glenn McGrath 'deeply regrets' hunting safari
“Track buffalo and tuskless elephant on foot, the real way! Also lion, crocodile, hippo, leopard, sable, kudu and eland,” the company says on its site. McGrath ... «The New Daily, Feb 15»
Govt Shocked Over Increased Tuskless Elephants
He, however, said that preliminary findings have it that tuskless elephants were not poachers target, thus possibility of increasing in number was so high ... «AllAfrica.com, Jan 15»
Tanzania Investigates Increase in Tuskless Elephants
Tanzania's Ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources announced that in the 2015/2016 fiscal year the government will allocate funds for research aimed at ... «teleSUR English, Jan 15»
Raju, the crying elephant, declared free after 50 years in chains
The majestic 50 year old Makna (tuskless male) bull elephant Raju had been forced to hold out his trunk and beg for coins from passers-by for his entire life, ... «News24, Dec 14»
More brain than brawn
Bharathan is a 'makhna', a tuskless male elephant, and a bit of a local celebrity around Thorapally, a small village along the Mysore-Ooty highway, right at the ... «Hindu Business Line, Sep 14»
Kartick Satyanarayan, the man who made an elephant weep with joy
On July 3, around 6.30 pm, a team of wildlife conservationists gathered near Raju, a 50-year-old makhana (tuskless male elephant) at a large maidan in ... «Business Standard, Jul 14»
The mystery of the disappearing elephant tusk
They needed a population that had all three variables: both tusked and tuskless males, males that come into musth and come out of it, and males of varying ... «Mongabay.com, Oct 13»
