Park authorities in Zimbabwe are inquire the mysterious end of 11 elephant in the western neighborhood of the state after ruling out cyanide toxic condition and poaching , according to a SundayAssociated Press report .
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The carcass were first discovered on Friday in Pandamascue Forest , between Hwange National Park , Zimbabwe ’s turgid natural reserve , and Victoria Falls . The numb elephants still had their ivory , ruling out poacher , per the AP . Zimbabwe is home to the secondly - largest elephant universe in the world , estimated at 85,000 , and in late years has been struggling with poachers envenom dozens of elephants to cut off their tusks and sell them to illegal tusk dealer .
A herd of elephants roams the grounds at Hwange National Park, the largest natural reserve in Zimbabwe.Photo: Jekesai Njikizana (Getty Images)
“ We can only ascertain the causal agency of death after the test . But we have harness out nitril toxic condition , ” Farawo said . “ Only elephant were affected , no vultures or any other creature were affected . Initial tests show that it is not cyanide . We are also prevail out poachers because the tusks were intact . ”
As if this was n’t enough of a head - scratcher , hundreds of elephantswere found dead before this class in neighboring Botswana in another mystery scientists are still seek to unscramble . They ’ve ruled out poaching , pesticides , agrochemicals , and pathogens so far , and now the land ’s environment ministry has moved on to investigatingenvironmental factorssuch as naturally occurring toxins as a potential cause .
A gruesome drought in Zimbabwe last twelvemonth causedroughly 200 elephantsto starve to death in interior ballpark , sothis year’srecord - breakingheat in all likelihood ca n’t be ruled out as a component , pitiful as it is to say .
[ The Associated Press ]
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