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What people want is the tusks, rather than the internal skeleton. Elephant tusks are made of a particularly useful type of bone called ivory. Prior to the invention of plastic, ivory was the best material for a wide variety of uses, from billiard balls to piano keys. People sometimes still metaphorically refer to playing a piano as "tickling the ivory". All made possible by elephants.

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