Study: Elephants, lions and other wild animals are sensitive to the effects of war
To the list of ways that humans are making it hard for zebras, giraffes and other large mammals to survive in the wild, you can now add war.
Researchers have new evidence that animals are exquisitely vulnerable to the effects of warfare. They analyzed 65 years of armed conflicts in Africa and found that exposure to just one year of war within a 20-year period was enough to destabilize populations in the wild.
"The mere occurrence of conflict, irrespective of its human death toll, was sufficient to
