{"id":629683,"date":"2026-10-13T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629683\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:16:08","slug":"when-an-elephant-dies-its-body-marks-the-landscape-for-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629683\/","title":{"rendered":"When an elephant dies, its body marks the landscape for a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DP7PIJDJR5FZLPED7S4N5ZWE5U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In the circle of life, nothing merely disappears \u2014 especially not something as massive as an elephant, which can weigh up to seven tons during its 70-year lifespan.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4ADXONJBVFHXXGSYYR2MF5SFIE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Research <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2605332123\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published Monday<\/a> in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details how elephant carcasses shaped the savanna up to  almost a decade after their deaths, finding that they triggered bare spots on the landscape before transforming into nutrient-rich hubs of vegetative growth and feeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the circle of life, nothing merely disappears \u2014 especially not something as massive as an elephant, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-629683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}