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Collectively they do, but no individual poacher has much to gain from killing an individual tuskless elephant. It's like a tragedy of the commons, but one that
by praxulus 10y ago
Collectively they do, but no individual poacher has much to gain from killing an individual tuskless elephant. It's like a tragedy of the commons, but one that works out well for the elephants.
- adamnemecek 10y agoThey do kill them so that they don't try to track the animal again in the future.
- hueving 10y agoApparently they don't. Otherwise we wouldn't be reading this story.