The elephant’s tusks are made of ivory ... They are upper incisors that grow as long as 4 inches. The chevrotain, also called ...

They can grow to be 10 to 13 feet (3 to 4 meters) tall ... Elephants use their tusks to dig, root for food, and defend themselves. Elephant tusks are actually specialized, elongated teeth ...

One elephant managed to escape, but the other, a tusker, got its left tusk stuck on the lorry. Fortunately, the collision wasn’t head-on, so the tusker ran toward a small forest patch on the other ...

A carcass of a Makna elephant (male elephant without tusks) was found in the jungles of Bagdogra in the Kurseong division of Darjeeling, an official said on Sunday. According to Rahul Deb ...