When they are approached for a fight they defend them selves with their tusks by ramming them into the other animal.
Yes, they use them to threaten animals and sometimes to stab them.
Tusks are nothing but their teeth. So ideally speaking they must be able to. But if you are going to cut off an elephants tusks, it would die.
No, not all elephants have tusks. Female Asian Elephants, for example, do not have tusks.
All elephants have tusks, with and exception of the Female Asian elephants.
No. Rhinos have horns. Elephants have tusks. Horns are made of keratin, the same thing that composes hair. Tusks are modified teeth.
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.
Unlike Asian elephants, in which only males have tusks, both male and female African elephants are tusked. However, due to the hunting pressure on tusked animals brought about by poaching for ivory, tusklessness is an increasingly common condition in African elephants.Both female and male African elephants can have rather large tusks. Female Asian elephants don't. :)
Baby elephants or calves are born without tusks. They will get their tusks around age 3.
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Female African Elephants have small tusks while Male African Elephants have large tusks. In Asian Elephants, only the males have tusks. Females have very small or no tusks at all. Even among male elephants, the African Male's tusks are much larger than the Asian Males tusks
No, not all elephants have tusks. Female Asian Elephants, for example, do not have tusks.
Yes, if you are referring to the tusks belonging to many elephants. If the tusks belong to one elephant, it would be 'elephant's'.
All elephants have tusks, with and exception of the Female Asian elephants.
yes they have tusks like all the elephants
This all happens because the tusks of the elephants are very valuable to hunters and the ones with tusks are less likely to survive because they are hunted.Over time the elephants adapt to being hunted and they are born without tusks.
no, African elephants also have tusks
why do some Asian elephants have tusks and some don'tbecause female don't have tusks
no they don't have tusks
It depends. Female African Elephants have small tusks while Male African Elephants have large tusks. In Asian Elephants, only the males have tusks. Females have very small or no tusks at all. Even among male elephants, the African Male's tusks are much larger than the Asian Males tusks