Africa's Savanna Elephants in Trouble

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Aug 11, 201700:21:04Science & Medicine

Today (August 12th) is World Elephant Day and we thought there was no better time to take a look at the state of Africa’s elephants. To find out how they are doing we spoke with Mike Chase, conversation biologist and fou...

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