"By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."

[W Brewer]

Wilson Gray wrote: Re: "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants
had been
             _decimated_."
WB: Let us do the math on this. Eighty-five percent of the elephants were
decimated. In the old math, that meant 10% of the 85% were culled, or only
8.5% went to the Great Elephant Burial Ground. That?s not so bad.

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