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Yes. African elephants are generally larger in all physical aspects compared to Asian elephants.

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Q: Do African elephants have bigger tusks than Asian elephants?
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Which elephants have tusks?

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


African elephants are larger than Asian elephants true or false?

True! African Elephants have bigger trunks, tusks, ears and other cool things bigger than Asian elephants. It is quite neat!!


Is it true that only Asian elephants have tusks?

no, African elephants also have tusks


Do female elephants have tusk?

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. :)


Do elephants have 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.


Do both male and female elephants grow 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


Do Asian elephants have tusks?

Asian Elephants do have tusks but only males.


What makes an African elephant different from an Asian elephant?

The most telling difference is the size of their ears and the presence of tusks. African elephants have much larger, more rounder ears than Asian elephants do, and tend to be able to have tusks more often. Asian elephants, on the other hand, have much smaller and more square or triangle-shaped ears (which ever shape you prefer) than African elephants do. A tusked Asian elephant (called Tuskas) is more rare than an Asian elephant with no tusks.


Why do some Asian elephants not have tusks?

why do some Asian elephants have tusks and some don'tbecause female don't have tusks


Who do elephants have ivory tusks?

no they don't have tusks


The front teeth of an elephant are called tusks True or false?

For African male and female elephants, the statement is true. In Asian elephants, the statement is also true, with the exception that a few female Asian elephants do not develop tusks.


Are Asian elephants and the African elephants the same specie's?

No. They are quite different.The African is larger, with larger ears, and heavier tusks. The Asian is more often seen in zoos and circuses.