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Why Does This Massive Elephant Shake a Tree Until It Falls Over?

An elephant’s strength is so great that it can take down trees simply by tugging at the branches with its trunk. A video from the YouTube channel, PETER FERNANDES (GRENT WORLD), shows one determined ...
Daily Maverick

Elephants or marula trees? A plant ecologist’s uneasy view from the Kruger Park

Elephants are steadily reducing the number of mature marula trees in the park, while regeneration has all but collapsed due to browsing from other herbivores. By allowing their numbers to remain at ...
Mongabay

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling elephants ...
Mongabay

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...