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A wild boar [Sus scrofa] gets tusks as of the age of two years old. In the male, the upper tusks are hollow and serve as sharpeners for the lower tusks. In females, there's only the lower tusks. But regardless of the gender of the boar or the number of the tusks, boar tusks are sharp.

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