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Tusks are thought to have adapted to the extra-oral environments, like dry or aquatic or arctic. [1] In most tusked species both the males and the females have tusks although the males' are larger. Most mammals with tusks have a pair of them growing out from either side of the mouth. Tusks are generally curved and have a smooth, continuous surface.
Many organizations are working to protect elephants and to give them a fighting chance at survival. The World Wildlife Fund is working to create new safe areas for elephants and to create anti ...
Asian elephants have skin that is more speckled than that of their African brothers and sisters. According to a recent study, African elephants have wrinkles to retain water and prevent ...
Many scientists speculate as to why elephants developed long trunks. An elephant’s trunk serves a lot of important purposes: eating, drinking, and communication are some of the most common uses ...
African elephants have grey folded skin up to 30 mm (1.2 in) thick that is covered with sparse, bristled dark-brown to black hair. Short tactile hair grows on the trunk, which has two finger-like processes at the tip, whereas Asian elephants only have one. [ 7 ]
It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in). As with other African elephants, both sexes have straight, down-pointing tusks, which begin to grow once the animals reach 1–3 years old. The forest elephant lives in highly sociable family groups of up to 20 individuals.
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks. The chemical structure of the teeth and tusks of mammals is the same, regardless of the species of origin, but ivory contains structures of mineralised collagen ...
The video starts with Travers discussing Mak's massive tusks, which must not be all that interesting to Mak because the playful elephant decides to steal Travers' hat right off of his head ...