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Why do elephants have ivory tusk joke?
Only male elephants have tusks and some tusks fall off during fights
Why are tusk less elephants becoming more likely to reproduce than the ones with tusks?
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 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.
Can elephants live if they have there tusks pulled out?
it would but if you cut it off they would die
Why may the number of tuskless elephants in Uganda be increasing?
Ivory, which is what elephant tusks are made of, is really valuable and poachers are taking the tusks off the elephants to sell illegally on the black market.
What do people do with the bodies after killing elephants?
In most cases, nothing. Most elephants are killed for their tusks which is used in the illegal ivory trade. Once they have cut off the tusks, they have no use for the rest of the body so they leave it.
Can elephants live without their tusks?
Yes, elephants can survive without their tusks as long as they have access to adequate food, water, and protection from predators. However, tusks play important roles in communication, foraging, defense, and other behaviors, so elephants are at a disadvantage without them in the wild.
How do elephants get poached?
Poachers manage to evade rangers and locate elephants. Using powerful guns, they shoot elephants multiple times until they die. Then they use chainsaws to hack off the tusks, which are the part that sells for lots of money. Then they somehow smuggle the tusks out of Africa and into other countries.
From what animal do you get ivory?
Elephant tusks mainly. It also come from the tusks of Walrus, and Boars.
Is rainforests getting detroyed?
Are Rainforerts getting destroyed? Yes People are using them as medicines, rugs and cutting off elephants tusks
What do elephants do with their tusks?
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.
What is the difference between the Asian elephant and the African elephant?
some differences in African and Asian elephants is that: African elephants weigh up to 4000 - 7000 kg and have a height of about 3 - 4m, though Asian elephants only weigh about 3000 - 6000 kg and have a height of 2 - 3 and a half metres. African elephants skin is a lot darker and more wrinkled, where as Asian elephants have lighter and smoother skin. African elephants have a concave back, where Asian elephants have a straight or slightly humped back. African Elephants have a sloped head, with no bumps, bulges or denses. Where as Asian elephants have rounded heads with some bumbs and have a dint on the top of their head. African Elephants have larger ears with a size of 4m, and the ears cover its neck. Where as Asian elephants have smaller ears and it doesn't cover its neck. In African elephants, both male and female elephants have tusks, though male elephants tusks are larger. Though with Asian elephants, yes the males grow tusks as well, but the females don't. And if they do, they are barely visible anyways. Also on the end of a African elephants trunk, it has two fingers. Though Asian elephants only have one finger. ( These are true facts, I got them off my science teacher who specialises in differences found in similar mammals. )
