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What are Tusks? How does an elephant make use of tusks for its survival?
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Tusks are used for defense, offense, digging, lifting objects, gathering food, and stripping bark to eat from trees. They also protect the sensitive trunk, which is tucked between them when the elephant charges. In times of drought, elephants dig water holes in dry riverbeds by using their tusks, feet, and trunks....
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Elephants tusks are modified teeth, the longest and heaviest teeth in the entire animal kingdom. Tusks are used in fighting and in digging up roots, bulbs, and similar plant products which elephants eat. It has also been reported that the African species occasionally picks up the young elephants with its tusks and carries them for some distance.
Practically all-male African elephants have tusks, and even the female often develops them. The female Indian elephant, however, seldom does, and even the male of this species is frequently without them.
The longest known tusks from present-day elephants are a pair from an African elephant now in the National Collection of Heads and Horns, Bronx Park, New York. The longest of the pair measures 11 feet 5 and 1/2 inches; its mate, 11 feet.