(March 29, 2020 at 10:10 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(March 29, 2020 at 10:08 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I think whats hes saying is that the elephants with big trunks were shot leaving only small trunked elephants. Hunting became an evolutionary pressure to shrink the size of tusks. Could happen but I've not seen the research.Read it again - said grow without tusks not smaller tusks. ie - stopped growing tusks at all.
It could also mean that if an elephant has a big trunk people shoot it which could affect the results I suppose.
Really! what a dick.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
