(Posted 15th June 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| David Brown, Mongabay (U.S), June 11, 2026 |
| A field experiment in Kenya shows that dung beetles disappear when the African elephants they depend on for their fecal food and shelter also vanish locally. This is the first time that coextinction, the disappearance of one species leading directly to the extinction of another species, has been demonstrated in a large-scale field experiment, according to a recent study. In 2008, the researchers built a set of 10,000-square-meter (2.4 acres) exclosures in Mpala, Kenya. The enclosures were a fenced area of natural savanna habitat that kept out certain animals. |
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