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Human Echolocation, Extreme Pogo Sticking, Elephants Evading Poachers

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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African Elephants - The Biggest Land Mammal on Earth

This story came out of one of the features in the dare devil issue, written by jason biddle. And i want to give a little background on the specific place where some of this research on elephants took place. It's a national park called gorengosa, quite famous because of its diversity of wild life. They were down to 90 % of their population after mosembik went through a giant civil war between the seventies and nineties. So after the civil war, the wy life populations in gorangossa were depleted. And the elephants were particularly hard hit.

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