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Elephant ivory is made from the tusk of an elephant.
Ivory is the commonly used name for the substance of an elephant tusk.
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The heaviest elephant tusk on record weighed around 225 pounds. This tusk was from an African elephant that was poached for its ivory.
No, an elephant's tusk is ivory, while a rhino's horn is made up of compressed hairs.
I think the term you might be looking for is tusk. An elephant's tusk is made of ivory and almost looks like a very large, white banana.
An ivory statue is typically made from the tusks of elephants, which are poached for their ivory. This illegal poaching threatens the survival of elephant populations in the wild. It is important to discourage the trade of ivory products to protect these animals.
Usually in mammals tusks are enlarged canine teeth but in elephants they are actually elongated incisors. Tusks are essentially no different from other teeth. A third of the tusk is actually hidden from view, embedded deep into the elephant's head. This part of the tusk is a pulp cavity made up of tissue, blood and nerves. The visible, ivory part of the tusk is made of dentine with an outer layer of enamel. Elephant ivory is unique which when viewed in cross-section reveals criss-cross lines that form a series of diamond shapes. Elephants tusk never stop growing so some old bulls display enormous examples. However the average size of tusks has decreased over the past hundred years because hunting elephants for their ivory has resulted in the 'big tusk gene' becoming increasingly rare.
One ivory tusk is worth the life of one elephant, and the life of one elephant is worth more than 10 poachers. If you buy the ivory tusk (or sell it), you give those 10 poachers power and reason to kill one of the most beautiful of God's creatures, in which case, your life is worth LESS than that of the lowest of the 10 poachers'. Please also be aware that the trading of tusks was banned in 1989.
The Narwhal has a long ivory tusk.