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Why do elephants have ivory tusk joke?
Only male elephants have tusks and some tusks fall off during fights
Why are tusk less elephants becoming more likely to reproduce than the ones with tusks?
Poachers have decimated the elephant populations where elephants have large tusks. They kills elephants for their tusks, which is known as ivory. The ivory trade is illegal except in countries like China. As elephants with big tusks are killed off by poachers, only elephants with small tusks or no tusks at all at left to mate and have offspring.
Why are tusk less elephants becoming more likely to reproduce than ones with tusk?
Poachers have decimated the elephant populations where elephants have large tusks. They kills elephants for their tusks, which is known as ivory. The ivory trade is illegal except in countries like China. As elephants with big tusks are killed off by poachers, only elephants with small tusks or no tusks at all at left to mate and have offspring.
Can elephants live if they have there tusks pulled out?
it would but if you cut it off they would die
Why may the number of tuskless elephants in Uganda be increasing?
Ivory, which is what elephant tusks are made of, is really valuable and poachers are taking the tusks off the elephants to sell illegally on the black market.
Can elephants live without their tusks?
When they are approached for a fight they defend them selves with their tusks by ramming them into the other animal.
What do people do with the bodies after killing elephants?
In most cases, nothing. Most elephants are killed for their tusks which is used in the illegal ivory trade. Once they have cut off the tusks, they have no use for the rest of the body so they leave it.
How do elephants get poached?
Poachers manage to evade rangers and locate elephants. Using powerful guns, they shoot elephants multiple times until they die. Then they use chainsaws to hack off the tusks, which are the part that sells for lots of money. Then they somehow smuggle the tusks out of Africa and into other countries.
From what animal do you get ivory?
Elephant tusks mainly. It also come from the tusks of Walrus, and Boars.
Is rainforests getting detroyed?
Are Rainforerts getting destroyed? Yes People are using them as medicines, rugs and cutting off elephants tusks
What do elephants do with their tusks?
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 do people do with elephant tusks?
People saw them off the animal and use them to either sell off and make a lot of money, or sculpt into little design which they will either keep for themselves and family or will again sell for money.It's sad :( Ivory trading is terrible!Elephants tusks are used for weapons, for keys on pianos, for billiard balls, for jewelry and fine carvings...
