High incidence of elephant twin births in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Twin births have been remarkably common among 139 individually known adult female elephants studied since 1992/93 in Tarangire NP. 14 or almost 5% of the 291 recorded births have been twins: seven sets have consisted of five sets of a male and a female, and two sets of twin females. The interbirth...

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Published in:Pachyderm
Main Author: Charles Foley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IUCN 2002-06-01
Online Access:https://pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachyderm/article/view/1087