CSI Wildlife | Case Two | Finding a Location | The Ivory Came from the East or South

The Seized Ivory Came from the East or South

4 elephants walking in a grassy savanna — A Group of Savanna Elephants Walking

Based on your analysis, you can now eliminate the northern savanna as a possible source of the ivory. You will use another set of four markers to determine whether the ivory more likely came from a poached elephant in the east or south.

East and South Savanna Elephant Populations

Dots correspond to elephant populations. As you will see, we have eliminated all the populations corresponding to forest elephants and northern savanna elephants.

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