Elephant tusks are made of bone, they are actually its second upper incisors , teeth. Tusks grow continuously; an adult Male's tusks grow about 18 cm (7 in) a year. Elephants use their Tusks to dig for water, salt, and roots, to debark trees, and eat the, to dig into baobab trees to get at the pulp inside, and to move trees and branches when clearing a path. In addition, they use them for marking trees to establish territory and occasionally as weapons. Like humans who are typically right- or left-handed, elephants are usually right- or left-tusked. The dominant tusk, called the master tusk, is generally shorter and more rounded at the tip from wear. Tusks are highly sought after by poachers, who will often kill the elephant for its tusks, also called Ivory. There are not gems in the tusks unless they are placed there by a human as decoration, as is often done in places such as India, where the elephant is revered.
The possessive form for the tusks and ears of an elephant is the elephant's tusks and ears.
Elephant tusks are made of ivory.
The possessive form is the elephant's tusks and ears.Example sentence:The rain was dripping from the elephant's tusks and ears.
Yes, if you are referring to the tusks belonging to many elephants. If the tusks belong to one elephant, it would be 'elephant's'.
The possessive form is "the elephant's tusks and ears".
The African elephant
They are tusks.
Yes and no. Both genders of the African elephants have tusks but the female Asian elephant does not have tusks, unlike the male Asian elephant.
Example sentence: The elephant's tusks and ears were large.
African elephant calves are typically born without tusks. Tusks start to grow around the age of two and continue to develop as the elephant matures. Both male and female African elephants can have tusks.
Elephant tusks are now the target of poachers.
Tusks are weapons, essentially built-in spears.