Asian Elephants Are Ingesting Large Amounts of Plastic From Landfills in India

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesMay 25, 2022, 5:33 pm331 pts
The highly social and endangered Asian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) lives in matriarch-led groups and, in addition to foods that can be found in the wild like grasses and the roots, bark and leaves of trees, enjoys foods cultivated by humans like rice and bananas, according to the World Wildlife Fund.…

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