Elephants have long been recognized using branches ... Traditionally, male and female African elephants possess tusks, while only some male Asian elephants have prominent tusks.

Horns are not only different from tusks, but they’re different from antlers in that they’re not shed and grow back. The ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears ... Elephants have the longest gestation period of ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... Both males and females use their ivory tusks to dig for food whilst foraging for a diet of grasses, roots, fruit and bark, males however ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their ... elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks at rates that are causing ...

Franko Khoury/ National Museum of African Art, SI Bearers hoisting elephant tusks. Photograph by Robert ... well-versed in a "long tradition of carving, mainly in wood." Among them were the ...

This photo shows Raw elephant tusks ... that West African trading centers and networks of exchange flourished for thousands of years before the sailing of the Bom Jesus, so there was an established ...

There are two forms of African elephant ... a population of elephants in the transition zone between the classic savannah and forest forms. We found a mosaic of features, including body size as large ...