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Genetics link Angola's 'ghost elephants' to populations hundreds of miles away

  • May 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Genetics link Angola's 'ghost elephants' to populations hundreds of miles away
For more than a decade, conservation biologist Steve Boyes searched for "ghost elephants"—nocturnal giants rumored to roam a remote, high-altitude wetland in eastern Angola. When a motion-sensor camera finally captured their image in 2024, Boyes turned to Stanford scientists for help answering a deeper question: Who are these elephants, and where did they come from?

Originally published at Phys.org

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