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Elephants and their ancestors have roamed the African continent for millions of years. They are the largest land animals on earth and can live up to 70 years. Despite an international ban on the ivory trade and other laws to protect elephants, their overall populations continue to fall due to habitat loss and rampant poaching for their tusks. Because of that, a once rare trait is being passed onto more African elephants. The trait is tusklessness, The loss of tusks is only the beginning. The real devastation occurs with the loss of a groups matriarch. The oldest and most experienced grandmothers are the family’s living memory of migration routes, friendly elephants, food and water sources, etc. Matriarchs are also, the first in line to protect their families and without them an entire group of elephants can fall apart.

Many thanks to Dr. Joyce H. Poole, Dr. Tammie Matson, Andrew Parker, and African Parks. To learn more about their ongoing work in elephant conservation, visit their websites below:





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Jena Friedman explains how you can outsource anything from grocery shopping to breaking up with your significant other.
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A treacherous commute just became safer for children in this remote mountaintop village in China.
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A half-mile commute to school doesn't sound so bad, until you realize that commute consists of a vertical climb up and down a mountainside. That's the reality for children in Atule'er village, located on a mountaintop in a remote part of southwestern China's Sichuan Province. It's a treacherous climb, which until recently had consisted of aging bamboo ladders. Now, the bamboo has been replaced with steel, making the climb safer and faster, though still difficult. Children typically stay in dorms during the week, making the ascent to return home to the village on weekends.

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Would You Send Your Kid on a Deadly Climb to School? Here, It Happens | National Geographic


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Fennec foxes are the smallest of the fox species ... but their ears can grow to be half the size of their bodies.
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Three deer are caught on a security camera running into a gas station.
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It's not something you expect to see at a gas station, but a security camera captured three deer running through the front door of a station in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada. The deer run around the store and make a mess as they scramble to find a way out.

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Walruses were observed exhibiting a wide variety of behaviors around seabirds in the Chukchi Sea.
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Walruses have been anecdotally observed attacking seabirds. But now, a study conducted off Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea, near Russia, shows that at least some walrus-seabird interactions may actually be play behavior, at least on the walrus's part. Out of 74 encounters witnessed, only one resulted in the death of a bird. The majority of these encounters involved young walruses and also included episodes where walruses would play with dead seabirds that had been dropped by birds of prey or washed in with the tide.

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Located just 800 miles from the North Pole on the island of Spitsbergen, the Soviet-era ghosttown of Pyramiden is one of the northernmost permanent settlements in the world. The site was first developed as a mining village in 1936, after the Soviets acquired the rights to mine the local coalfields. Although Pyramiden was abandoned in 1998, it remains remarkably well preserved due to the frigid Arctic climate.
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Today only six people permanently reside in the former communist outpost. Working as Pyramiden’s resident tour guide, Aleksandr Romanovsky is one of those few inhabitants. Better known as “Sasha from Pyramiden,” Romanovsky gives tours of the frozen Soviet time capsule to curious tourists. In this short film from filmmaker David Beazley, visit the Arctic ruins of theSoviet era as Romanovsky reflects on his solitary life at the edge of the world.

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