Elephants avoiding mines (Angola)
By STAN FREEMAN, The Republican
March 20, 2008

AMHERST - Eliminated from Angola during more than two decades of civil war, herds of African elephants are crossing heavily mined fields as they recolonize Angola from neighboring Namibia and Botswana.

But miraculously, they are avoiding the mines entirely, according to researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst who are tracking them via global positioning system satellites.

"It's quite a mystery," said Curtice R. Griffin, the UMass professor of wildlife ecology leading the research. He estimates that hundreds of elephants have crossed through the mine fields without incident.

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