One notable difference between elephants and gomphotheres besides their size is the number of tusks. Elephants have two tusks ...

Even if it were a painless procedure, many elephants rely on their tusks to accomplish essential survival skills. Being left without the use of a tusk is not dissimilar to losing access to a hand.

Baby elephants have baby tusks that often grow up to two inches before they lose them after about a year. Permanent tusks emerge when the elephants reach two years. Since elephant tusks ...

The South African National Parks (SANParks) has confirmed that a tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant in the ...

A 77-year-old tourist was attacked and killed by an elephant in a nature reserve in India on Tuesday evening. The man was riding his motorcycle on the road when he was suddenly confronted by the ...

Four years on from the end of the Angolan Civil War, the bloody plight of the country’s elephants is worsening with a doubling in the illegal ivory trade over the last 12 to 18 months, according to ...

Salem: Five people were arrested red-handed when attempting to sell elephant tusks in Salem district on Thursday. Forest officials seized two pairs of tusks, a car and two motorcycles from them.

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 ...

However, they say more effort is still needed to combat poaching for tusks and the trafficking of great apes. See All Key Ideas A survey has found populations of elephant, gorillas and chimpanzees ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

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 ...