Asian elephants’ picky diet helps shape their forest home, study shows

Mongabay
Aug 9, 2023, 3:34 am145 pts
Asian elephants have long been described as forest “cleaners” by the Orang Asli people of Peninsular Malaysia who have lived alongside the giant mammals for tens of thousands of years. A new study looking closely at the foraging behavior of free-roaming elephants backs up this ancestral understanding,…

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