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What are Elephant teeth and tusks made out?
An elephant's tusk is basically nothing more the a large modified incisior that grow throughout the elephants lifetime. The elephant uses its tusk for defense digging and eating and marking. Both females and males grow tusk.
How many tusk teeth does an elephant have?
two only
What do you called elephant teeth?
tusks, you idiot
Does it hurt the elephant when the tusk is removed?
No the elephant tusk is mostly cartilage so it doesn't hurt The tusk of an elephant has no nerve endings so there is no pain when they cut them off. Just as it does not hurt a horse to have their teeth ground annually.
Why does an elephant have tusk?
The Tusk is nothing but a teeth that has grown out of the skull. Just like a human teeth, it is made of calcium and other minerals. It is used as a display of size and strength and sometimes during fights or to bring down a tree while feeding. Females usually have a very small tusk or no tusk at all.
What is a tusk on an elephant?
Adult Male Elephants have the longest and largest tusks of all elephant species. The Tusk is nothing but a teeth that has grown out of the skull. Just like a human teeth, it is made of calcium and other minerals. It is used as a display of size and strength and sometimes during fights or to bring down a tree while feeding. Females usually have a very small tusk or no tusk at all.
What is an elephant's tusk primarily made of?
ivory
Is a rhino's horn and elephant tusk made of the same substance?
No, an elephant's tusk is ivory, while a rhino's horn is made up of compressed hairs.
What is elephant ivory ware is it ivory or bone or?
Elephant ivory is made from the tusk of an elephant.
What are elephant tusks made of?
Ivory The elephants Tusk is nothing but a form of Teeth. It is made up of calcium. == ==
What are the long pointed teeth of an elephant called?
That would be it's tusk.
What is the substance that forms an elephants tusk?
Ivory is the commonly used name for the substance of an elephant tusk.
