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  2. How Heavy Poaching Has Led to Tuskless Elephants - AOL

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    Tusks are one of the most notable features of elephants, among their size and trunks. However, some elephants do not have tusks, and a high proportion of these elephants are females. Why do some ...

  3. The Multifaceted Role of Elephant Tusks: Tools, Weapons, and ...

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    Even if it were a painless procedure, many elephants rely on their tusks to accomplish essential survival skills. Being left without the use of a tusk is not dissimilar to losing access to a hand.

  4. Tusk - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Musth - Wikipedia

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    In this movie, a tribal village wants to hire a kumki elephant to chase away wild elephants which enter the village every harvest season. The mahout, who needs money, takes his temple-trained elephant to do this job, in the vain hope that wild elephants will not come in. But wild elephants start attacking the village on the harvest day.

  6. Ivory - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Why no tusks? Poaching tips scales of elephant evolution

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    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 ...

  8. Proboscidea - Wikipedia

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    The lower tusks are generally smaller than the upper tusks, but could grow to large sizes in some species, like in Deinotherium (which lacks upper tusks), where they could grow over 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long, the amebelodontid Konobelodon has lower tusks 1.61 metres (5.3 ft) long, with the longest lower tusks ever recorded being from the ...

  9. Forging Fortnite: How a North Carolina studio made the world ...

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    This is the world of Fortnite, a game of violence and intricate strategy, yes, but also cultural signifiers and silliness. A milieu where players find value in a machine gun and a mushroom. The ...