Elephants Don’t Like Hills
Posted on July 28th, 2006 by admin
Ain’t No Mountain Low Enough — Gray 2006 (725): 2 — ScienceNOW
Over 8 years, Douglas-Hamilton and colleagues tracked 60 elephants with global positioning technology.By plotting the routes on topographical maps, they learned that the pachyderms consistently avoided all slopes with inclines over 33 degrees.
Well, that’s settled. No elephant mountaineers, ever.
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