0
What else can I help you with?
Do all elephants have tusks?
No, not all elephants have tusks. Female elephants, known as cows, have much smaller or absent tusks compared to male elephants, known as bulls. Additionally, some elephant populations, such as those in Mozambique and parts of South Africa, are increasingly being born without tusks due to selective pressures caused by poaching.
Which elephants have tusks?
Female African Elephants have small tusks while Male African Elephants have large tusks. In Asian Elephants, only the males have tusks. Females have very small or no tusks at all. Even among male elephants, the African Male's tusks are much larger than the Asian Males tusks
Do female elephants have tusk?
Unlike Asian elephants, in which only males have tusks, both male and female African elephants are tusked. However, due to the hunting pressure on tusked animals brought about by poaching for ivory, tusklessness is an increasingly common condition in African elephants.Both female and male African elephants can have rather large tusks. Female Asian elephants don't. :)
Do both male and female elephants grow tusks?
It depends. Female African Elephants have small tusks while Male African Elephants have large tusks. In Asian Elephants, only the males have tusks. Females have very small or no tusks at all. Even among male elephants, the African Male's tusks are much larger than the Asian Males tusks
Do male or female elephants have tusks?
All Elephants have tusksAll Elephants have tusks
Why are there so few elephants and so many cows?
Because elephants are not as easily grown as cattle and they cannot be used for meat or milk production such as the cow can. Elephants require much more space than cattle, higher amount of caution due to their size, and are not adapted to colder climates.
What makes an African elephant different from an Asian elephant?
The most telling difference is the size of their ears and the presence of tusks. African elephants have much larger, more rounder ears than Asian elephants do, and tend to be able to have tusks more often. Asian elephants, on the other hand, have much smaller and more square or triangle-shaped ears (which ever shape you prefer) than African elephants do. A tusked Asian elephant (called Tuskas) is more rare than an Asian elephant with no tusks.
Are elephant tusks hollow?
Yes, some tusks are hollow; and no, some aren't. For example, the tusks of elephants, hippopotamuses, mammoths, walruses, and whales are mostly solid. But the narwhal tusk is hollow, as is that of the wild boar for much of its length.
Why do poachers hunt elephants?
Mankind has hunted elephants for a very long time. In prehistoric times, men went on hunting trips to hunt mammoths, which were cousins to elephants. There are three known species of elephants around today. They are: the African elephant, which has very large ears; the Indian elephant, which has much smaller ears and lives in India; and the recently classified Forest elephant. Over the years, elephants have been hunted for two main reasons: the meat could feed a whole village; and most importantly the two long tusks can be sold for a lot of money. Some other elephant products are leather made of its skin, and there was a time when the feet were used to make umbrella stands. Tusks, which are made of ivory, became so valuable that poachers would hunt and kill dozens of elephants in one night, just to butcher them for the tusks. The rest of the animal would be left behind. This awful practice is so bad that there are very few elephants left in the wild. The sale and trade of ivory has been severely restricted in recent years, but sadly, that has not stopped the illegal killing of elephants. The situation is so bad in Africa, that men who are assigned to protect the elephant herds are allowed to kill poachers when necessary.
Are elephants an endangered species?
Asian elephants are endangered and African Bush Elephants are vulnerable, but both African forest elephants and African elephants are not, although there has been a large decline in numbers due mainly to poaching.
Did elephants exist?
The first elephants came into existence after the wipe out of Dino's. The first elephants were the Phiomia which had the beginnings of tusks and the trunk. Then these Phiomia's changed into Dinothere which had upside-down tusks growing downward from its lower jaw.Otherwise it was much like an elephant. Platybelodon had tusks in its lower jaw. It most likely used these to scoop up water plants. The Mammoth was an enormous animal which often had a Shaggy coat. The Mastodon had teeth up to 7 1/2 cm wide and 15cm long. The mastodon then evolved into the elephants we have today
Are African elephants larger than Indian elephant?
Indian elephants have smaller ears, and African elephants have larger ears. I also think that the African elephants tusks might be a bit larger than the Indian ones. This answer is not completely accurate, but the Indian elephants do have smaller ears than African.
