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  1. Thank you biologist Amanda. Let's review
  2. Amanda explained to us that we study population ecology to see how
  3. we as elephants in track with each other and our environment.
  4. It helps me and other elephant biologists here in
  5. Botswana predicts many different future trends and adaptations.
  6. Let's look at a direct example
  7. as Amanda mentioned already,
  8. the population of african elephants fluctuate constantly
  9. before I get into some possible reasons.
  10. It is important to recognize that me and
  11. my species are classified as endangered each year.
  12. The population of african elephants decrease. Let's explore why
  13. the current decreases mostly because of illegal poaching.
  14. Many hunters are killing us for our ivory because of its value.
  15. Another reason is because of the human population growth.
  16. As the population of humans increases,
  17. they need to turn natural areas such as my home increases.
  18. We are losing more of our habitats every day due to urban expansion.
  19. In addition other natural factors like extensive
  20. droughts and diseases such as anthrax,
  21. a lethal disease.
  22. And elephants are factors of decrease in population
  23. luckily due to the data collected by Amanda and rain.
  24. Things like this are able to be studied recently.
  25. They were able to find out why my nieces don't have tusks.
  26. It is because elephants are trending towards becoming tusk lawless.
  27. The Tesla's trade is only present in females,
  28. but because test hunting has increased
  29. female elephants like my nieces are more likely to survive and then reproduce