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20 Jun 2012

Researchers from Germany and Canada have described a hormonal mechanism involving multiple and long-acting corpus lutea, which is apparently unique to the elephant and may enable their unusually long gestation periods, publishing their findings in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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