Asian elephants with longer tusks have lower parasite loads

Current Science

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 885-889

  Watve, Milind G ^a   Sukumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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