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EARLIER this month, an African elephant gave birth to twins at the Pongola Game Reserve.
Scientific evidence suggests that there is less that 1% prevalence rate of elephants twinning and even less of a chance that both twins survive into adulthood.
This makes the birth an incredibly rare natural occurrence.
The baby elephants were born to a 31-year-old elephant cow called Curve. She birthed three offspring before delivering the twins, all of which were male.
Paternity of the twins points to Ingani, a 44 year old elephant bull who died last year.
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