Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms

Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, cattle grazed the grass so short that elephants couldn't eat it, according to a University of Utah study.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news158861986.html">Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms</a></p> <p>Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, cattle grazed the grass so short that elephants couldn't eat it, according to a University of Utah study.</p>