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Poaching and habitat loss has caused a massive decline in the number and range of African elephants over the past few decades, with the greatest post ivory ban losses occurring since 2006. Poaching targets the largest individuals for their greater tusk sizes. This should also bias poaching towards males. We hypothesized that elephant sex ratios from heavily poached populations will initially be strongly...