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As he said this, the elephant bent down on his knees and offered up his spectacular silvery-white tusks.

The tusks stuck out above and below the jaw like a modern warthog, said Larsson. "This has never been seen before on any crocodile. "

elephant tusks have been used in some communities as a useful method of storing wealth, but is obviously unsuitable for small purchases.

Alive, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds; dead, he would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds, possibly.

It was fresh, maybe just a few weeks old, not far from the park headquarters, and the animal's face had been chopped off, the tusks removed.

So the boar came up and rushed at him with his tusks.

Here's the give-away, a pair of tusks two metres long, the trademark of a Columbian mammoth, the biggest animal to roam the ice age plains.

Elephant is usually grey in color, having a long trunk with large ivory tusks protruding from each side of its mouth.

In the mean time the villagers reported the sound of chopping as the tusks were being hacked out of the elephant.

Chinese nationals working on projects in Africa were placing orders for tusks with poachers, she said.

Hard white substance, a variety of dentin, that makes up the tusks of such animals AS elephants, walruses, and preserved mammoths.

"All right then, " said the generous King Goodness, "cut from both my tusks! "

Joe Johnston began to develop designs that were resembled upright wild boars complete with snouts and tusks.

The "Old Stone age" hall displays the real mammoth tusks, found on the bank of the Yenisey in the end of the 19th century.

Without hesitation, the elephant king offered what was left of his tusks.

With large tusks and a high rounded head, mammoths were up to 5 meters tall at the shoulder.

The walrus, with its tusks and whiskers, is instantly recognizable and can outweigh the polar bear by more than a thousand pounds.

The fate of the tusks is unknown. That of the elephants isn't.

KWS discovered the elephant's body lying in the middle of the road with its tusks taken by poachers.

Was it only female rhinos that were sexually penetrated and then pierced with tusks, or was interspecies sodomy practiced as well?

Apart from the historical value, the Mammoth Tusks have deeply influenced the living style of human beings since the Paleolithic period.

One of the tusks measured 16-feet-4-inches long and the other was more than 15 feet long, the research team said.

The Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Lab was called in to help determine whether the walrus were being illegally killed for their tusks.

The tusks are actually upper incisors, not canines. They are the only incisors the elephant has. . .

the curved tusks of a walrus; his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard.

Both sexes of the African elephant have tusks, but only the male sex of Asian elephants have tusks that protrude beyond the lips.

dead, he would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds, possibly.

any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long up curved tusks.

Rahula, it's like a royal elephant: immense, pedigreed , accustomed to battles, its tusks like chariot poles.

"Then I will bring you some live elephant tusks, " said the forester.

Then he roughly dug in with his heels, rubbing and tearing away the tender flesh from the stumps of the once-beautiful tusks.

Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines, and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths. x.

Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States.

Beaked whales and the narwhal are the only cetacean species with tusks, according to Baker.

After producing diplomatic passports, they were freed. The fate of the tusks is unknown.

It starts with a show of tusks. A standard opening tactic, it scares off smaller competitors.

The face twisted and small tusks sprang from either side of his nose.

Elephant tusks cannot grow out of a dog's mouth.

Mammoths are extinct elephants with a hairy skin and long tusks, curving upward.

Depending on quality, five-metre-long mammoth tusks can sell for tens of thousands of dollars.

Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees.

It compares single thread, system thread pool under different tusks and the time consumption described in the essay, in details.

Elephant tusks , monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa.

Forest elephants have straighter tusks and rounder ears than their larger, savanna-dwelling cousins.

Elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.

Both male and female walruses grow tusks, which are simply canine teeth that continue to grow throughout their lives.

Three of the other collared animals have also been killed in the past few months, their faces hacked off to get at the tusks.

A nocturnal, forest-dwelling wild pig(Babyrousa babyrussa) of the East Indies, having long, upward-curving tusks in the male.

wild boar and fox A wild boar was sharpening his tusks against a tree one day when a fox came by.

Adolescent males determine their own ranking order through jousting contests using head and tusks .

The unusual tusks, found on the outside of male's mouth, have baffled scientists because they are not used for capturing prey.

It's got a skull, it's got its jaw and its teeth and its tusks.

Elephant tusks are ivory teeth that grow throughout the animals' lives.

The second blind grasped one of the elephant's tusks and felt it.

There is evidence that mammoth tusks have been traded for at least 2, 000 years.

They may not be magical, 4 but narwhal tusks are worth lots of money.

Everyone knows the tusks from a live elephant are much more valuable than from a dead one.

They have tusks, a bellowing trumpet of a trunk and can stomp on things.

It contains many bones and tusks of mammoths which Taymyr is so rich in.

The great males fall first, so that their tusks can be made into trinkets.

It was about the same size as the woolly mammoth but had straight tusks and less hair.

The larger males weigh up to 2, 700 pounds and sport (lucen) tusks more than a foot long.

Realized they had already taken off with the tusks.

"Up until now, the purpose of the beaked whale tusks has been mysterious, " he added.

Tusks are fundamentally no different than ordinary teeth.

Nale: If you bring me one more brat who's too trendy to have a name, I'll feed you your own tusks.

The tusks of an elephant are actually its front teeth.

Many of the tusks are numbered with Swahili writing [see illustration on page 76], suggesting an East African shipping source.

Elephants use their tusks to get food by digging up roots and prying bark off trees.

Earlier this month, two Chinese engineers were arrested in N'Djamena, Chad's capital, with eight pairs of tusks.

it's one of the elephant tusks.

Ivory is the hard white material that forms an elephant's two long teeth, or tusks.

The males also use the tusks for sparring , giving each other crisscrossed patterns of scars.

Asian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male.

traders can claim they happened to find a few forgotten tusks in their storerooms.

Although both African elephant sexes have tusks , there are large differences in size and weight.

This huge mammal has got grey colored fur, large ears, long ivory tusks, a powerful trunk and heavy 4 legs.

Without the slightest regret, the man sawed off big pieces of ivory from both tusks.

Some people thought elephants lose tusks the way people lose teeth. '

Tusks stab left and right. The welts look nasty, but they only sting.

They will often shoot young elephants to draw in a grieving parent, which is then killed for its tusks .

My only real enemies are human hunters who value my ivory tusks.

The animal flipped its thick lips, baring its tusks .

Elephants till the soil with their tusks and dig large holes where water can collect.

Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks.

Their tusks. Also their male parts can get pretty gigantic.

Warthogs are wild pigs that live in Africa. They use their sharp tusks as weapons to ward off predators. They are also very fast runners.

And the army hunted for valuable rhino horns and tusks.

Hunters will make a lot of money if they sell elephants' tusks.

Where on earth can I find a mammoth elephant; without flamboyant protrusions of wild tusks.

Hunters will make a lot of money if they sell elephants' tusks.

Where on earth can I find a mammoth elephant; without flamboyant protrusions of wild tusks.

Raid on the city, knock out, evil tusks.

Thai customs last month spotted $3. 3m-worth of tusks under a pile of frozen fish.

Scrimshaw is the decoration of bone or ivory objects, such as whale teeth and walrus tusks, with fanciful designs.

The fate of the tusks is unknown.

Walruses are known for their. . . - Tusks?

bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.

This one, named Zed by scientist John Harris, has 2 intact tusks more than 3 meters long.

Elephants have very long and strong teeth. and we call the teeth tusks.

huge tusks to dig for water.

The tusks of 58 elephants, worth $1. 3m, were in metal boxes.

I have a large body with wrinkled skin and tusks made out of ivory.

To gore or dig with the tusks or a tusk.

Yours has the tusks on it.

Some walruses have been found with tusks protruding 3 feet (0. 9 meters) from their mouths.

Mothers teach their pups crucial skills, such as how to spot polar bears and how to haul out onto the ice using their tusks.

Tusks and all, it's 12. 5 feet high and 16 feet long.

for this magnificent pair of tusks

Tusks Led to New Whale Species

Tusks Led to New Whale Species

What Does the Walrus Use Its Tusks for

A: A big mammal with thick skin, long trunk, big ears and white tusks