Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential ... and tusks play a critical role in this process. Elephants have long been recognized using branches to swat off flies and fan themselves ...

“Two safari drivers were left shocked when a bull elephant stepped over the car and decided to scratch his belly itch,” ...

Since elephant tusks continually grow ... removes them from the breeding gene pool. Thus, strong and long tusk genes cannot be passed onto the next generation. In theory, if all tusked elephants ...

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Elephant tusks fetch a fortune in the black market as a surge in demand for ivory in the East continues to fuel the illicit trade in elephant tusks, especially from Africa. Police and Kenya ...