When I was accepted for graduate school at Idaho State University in 1974, I knew what my MS research would be on — the black ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable ...

Wildlife forensic experts have developed a new approach to distinguishing between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory — but selling mammoth ivory remains legal ...

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Community ecology is the study of communities formed of populations of different species. It includes the study of the interactions between species, such as mutualism, predation and competition ...

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