Description

• Fresh Elephant Tusk

• The tusks are actually upper incisors, not canines. They are the only incisors the elephant has...
• Tusks are used for digging, ripping of bark, foraging, resting a heavy trunk, and as weapons
• Tusks are fundamentally no different than ordinary teeth
• Both sexes of the African elephant have tusks, but only the male sex of Asian elephants have tusks that protrude beyond the lips.
• One of the elephant\'s tusks is often used more than the other 
  ( i.e. the parallel in humans is right handed and left handed people)