Unbelievable. People fought 15 years for their ivory, elephants come out with a fantastic trick

The study published in Science magazine [Science] has found that in Gorongo's National Park a rare genetic condition has previously become more common after hunting for ivory that had led to civil financial war brought species to the brink of extinction.

Before the war, about 18.5 percent of women were toothless.

But these figures have increased to 33% among elephants since the start of the 1990s, reports the BBC, translates Periscopi.

Some 90% of the elephant population were massacred by the warriors of both sides in the civil war that had lasted for fifteen years, from 1977 to 1992.

Hunters had sold ivory to finance their bloody conflict between government forces and anti-communist rebels.

As with the color of the eyes and the type of blood in humans, genes are responsible if elephants develop their teeth from their parents.

Toothless elephants had been released by hunters, leading to increased likelihood that they would thrive and pass toothless genetic characteristics on children.

Long - researchers have suspected that this trait, seen only in females, was linked to elephant sex. But they have already been surprised. /Periscope