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 ...

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 ...

Officials of the Forest Cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) caught a 27-year-old forest watcher while he was trying to sell two elephant tusks to prospective clients on Kollegal ...