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StJohn · 4326 days ago · link · · parent · post: U.S. to Destroy 6 Tons of Confiscated Ivory, Sending Message to Poachers | Extinction Countdown, Scientific American Blog Network
I remember writing this article in February 2012. Two months later a new movie came out called The Pirates! Band of Misfits in which Queen Victoria goes around eating all the rarest animals she can kill (and Charles Darwin has to stop her — great movie!) But to my amazement they cracked the exact same joke about "Dodo à l'orange" that I did. You can imagine me sputtering with delight and indignation in the cinema. But about the elephants, I've read that the number of tusk-less elephants has been steadily climbing over the 20th century. They're apparently evolving quite rapidly to survive the ivory trade. Science is neat.