Elephants never forget war
Charles Digges writes: If, as the saying goes, elephants never forget, then the elephants in the wildlife haven of Gorongosa National Park probably remember Mozambique’s civil war better than some humans do. So indelible are the memories of the country’s 15-year-long civil war, which raged from 1977 to 1992, that they are written in the elephants’ genes. As a result of the massive slaughter by the warring soldiers, who traded ivory to finance weapons for their protracted struggle, more and…