Poaching is the illegal hunting of wild animals Poachers typically kill exotic animals for profit Elephant tusks are made of

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Poaching is the illegal hunting of wild animals Poachers typically kill exotic animals for profit Elephant tusks are made of ivory and used for various ornaments and jewelry Between 1979 and 1989 the worldwide demand for ivory caused African elephant popula tions to decline to dangerously low levels Both male and female African elephants produce tusks Assuming that the size of the tusks is heritable which of the following is the most likely long term effect of poachers targeting African elephants with large tusks A B C an increase in average tusk size because of the need to provide more ivory for the poaching hunters an increase in average tusk size to provide the elephants with a defensive mechanism against poachers a decrease in average tusk size because elephants with large tusks are less likely to sur vive to reproduce

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