Tusks are a tool that can be used for a variety of uses. Everything from stripping nutritious bark off trees to digging, lifting things and for fighting. Elephants are known to prefer one tusk over the other. Having a master tusk is similar to humans being left or right handed. ...
Understanding the relationship between humans and elephants is of particular interest for reducing conflict and encouraging coexistence. This paper reviews the ecological relationship between humans and Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the rainforests of the Malay Peninsula, examining the extent of diffe...
An elephant shrew’s snout is used to help it hunt for food and escape predators. It is also a helpful tool that can be used to clear little pathways that the elephant shrew uses to lure insects and quickly run away from danger.Elephant shrews also have long tongues like anteaters, and...
Humans that poach the elephants for their ivory tusks, classifying them as one of the “African Big Five,” are the biggest threat to their survival along with habitat loss across the continent. Interesting Facts and Features The ears of the African bush elephant are shaped like the African co...
For the most of the year, the Asian elephant is shy and timid when it comes to interaction with humans. However, solitary individuals are an exception, because they are able to attack pedestrians. The solitary elephants often inhabit areas near roads, which makes it difficult for people to tr...
In addition, they are used for marking trees to establish territory and occasionally as weapons. Like humans who are typically right- or left-handed, elephants are usually right- or left-tusked. The dominant tusk, called the master tusk, is generally shorter and more rounded at the tip from...
” One knocks on a tusk: “No, it’s like a spear.” One fingers an ear: “No, it feels like a fan!” One swings from the tail: “It feels like a rope!” And they argue for hours, and in some versions even come to blows, because each was sure of what he’d felt and ...
(full text) a parody of James Herriot set in a world where remnants of the Ice are still found in Britain, and rather than hunting mammoths out of existence, people learned to tame them (readers will find out how mammoth tusk prosthetics are made); and “The Maltese Elephant” (also a...
For many centuries the Asian elephant has been important as a ceremonial anddraft animal. Technically, elephants have not been domesticated, for they have not been subjected toselective breedingfor “improvement” of traits desired by humans, as has been the practice with cattle, horses, and dogs...
Tusk size and shape are inherited. Tusks are used for defense, offense, digging, lifting objects, gathering food, and stripping bark to eat from trees. They also protect the sensitive trunk, which is tucked between them when the elephant charges. In times of drought, elephants dig water ...