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Only male elephants have tusks and some tusks fall off during fights
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What is main ingredient of an elephants tusk?
ivory
What material are elephants tusk made into?
IVORY
What substance is an elephants tusk made from?
ivory
About the ivory horn?
Ivory is an elephants tusk and a white icy colour .
What is the substance that forms an elephants tusk?
Ivory is the commonly used name for the substance of an elephant tusk.
How do elephants kill things?
Elephants kill thing by using their tusk. Tusk are made of ivory which is very strong which makes it eaisier for them to kill things. They also use their tusk as weapons and shovels.
What is ivory made of?
Ivory is found in the tusks of male elephants. Hunters/poachers kill the elephants for the ivory, usually the elephants are shot and once the hunters have taken the tusk the animal is Left there.
What are elephant tusks made of?
Ivory The elephants Tusk is nothing but a form of Teeth. It is made up of calcium. == ==
What do people use elephants tusk for?
For piano keys and for some ivory orniments
How strong is the elephant tusk?
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.
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.
Why do hunters poach elephants and rhinos?
for their ivory tusk and horns.. simply for the money they will just saw it off after killing them.
