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.
An elephant's tusk (one tusk) is worth about 700 dollars that's a common price for a solo tusk.
Only a large enough gorilla can break an elephant's tusk.
The heaviest elephant tusk on record weighed around 225 pounds. This tusk was from an African elephant that was poached for its ivory.
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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.
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For fashion
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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They are as sharp as a branch.
About 39 kg