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Some quarters believe that the female survival rate without these genes is due to the high survival rate of female elephants without tusks. These elephants can survive equally, using their size ...
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.
As we’ve seen, elephants have a large cerebral cortex capable of creating a large long-term memory for their, and the herd’s, survival. Matriarchs build up memories to help the herd survive.
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] Their large ears help to reduce body heat.
A bull elephant in musth, wild or otherwise, is extremely dangerous to humans, other elephants, and other species. Bull elephants in musth have killed keepers/mahouts, as well as other bull elephants, female elephants, and calves (the last usually inadvertently or accidentally in what is often called "herd infighting"). [13]
The elephants use their tusks to break off pieces of the cave wall that they then chew and swallow, leaving the walls scratched and furrowed; their actions have likely enlarged the cave over time. [1] Other animals including bushbuck, buffalo and hyenas come to Kitum Cave to consume salt left by
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 ...
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 ...