The African Forest Elephant mainly uses its immense tusks for digging roots out of the ground, and to strip the bark off trees. The African Forest Elephant also uses its tusks to defend itself from predators such as Lions, and to fight with other male African Forest Elephants during the mati...
Poachers Target African Elephant for Ivory TusksMELISSA BLOCK
The only way to save the African elephant, conservationists say, is to outlaw the sale of ivory entirely. 动物保护人士称,挽救非洲大象的唯一办法就是完全禁止象牙销售。 cn.nytimes.com 4. Both sexes of the African elephant have tusks, but only the male sex of Asian elephants have tusks that ...
Many African elephants, Loxodonta africana, currently have short tusks due to selective pressures from poaching and the impact of a new conservation strategy referred to as detusking. Detusking involves the removal of the majority of an elephant's tusks in the hopes of preventing that elephant...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN received: 21 October 2015 accepted: 06 April 2016 Published: 21 April 2016 Use of handheld X-ray fluorescence as a non-invasive method to distinguish between Asian and African elephant tusks Kittisak Buddhachat1, Chatchote Thitaram2,3, Janine L. ...
In the cultures of many Africans the African Elephant is a figure of power and strength. Africans look at this animal and consider their size, loyalty, and spirit. Elephant tusks used in South Africa represent knowledge, strength, and control. African savannah elephants are in the savannah’s,...
Four tonnes of African elephant ivory worth $6 million has been seized at a Bangkok port in a container labelled as beans, Thai customs said Monday, in the kingdom's largest-ever haul of its kind. The 739 pieces of tusk were found stashed in a container which arrived at the port on ...
A male African savanna elephant’s tusks can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh more than 200 pounds. —PBS Elephants use their tusks as tools and even rely on one tusk more frequently—just like we do with our hands. —World Wildlife Fund ...
Video about an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) walking in natural habitat, Chobe National Park, Botswana. Video of tusks, wilderness, walking - 354888817
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