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An African elephant in Tanzania, with visible tusks. Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with narwhals, chevrotains, musk deer, water deer, muntjac, pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors.
Taking tusks from an elephant which has died of natural causes. Taking tusks from an elephant which has had to be put down for another reason, for example, severe arthritis, or if its last molar teeth are worn out and can no longer chew its food. Among working elephants which use their tusks to carry logs, there is a best length for their tusks.
A stack of elephant tusks burning in Kenya in April 2016. The destruction of ivory is a technique used by governments and conservation groups to deter the poaching of elephants for their tusks and to suppress the illegal ivory trade.
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...
Men with elephant tusks at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, c. 1900. The poaching of elephants for their ivory, meat and hides has been one of the major threats to their existence. [151] Historically, numerous cultures made ornaments and other works of art from elephant ivory, and its use was comparable to that of gold. [153]
The analysis was used to identify tusks of elephants that were close ... The study analysed the DNA of more than 4,000 African elephant tusks from 49 seizures made in 12 African countries between ...
A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil ...
Ivory trade in Ghana, 1690. Elephant ivory has been exported from Africa and Asia for millennia with records going back to the 14th century BCE.Transport of the heavy commodity was always difficult, and with the establishment of the early-modern slave trades from East and West Africa, freshly captured slaves were used to carry the heavy tusks to the ports where both the tusks and their ...