African elephants generally have much larger tusks than Asian elephants. While both male and female elephants can have tusks, you can expect African elephants to have more impressive tasks than ...

Both male and female African elephants grow big tusks, but only a few male Asian elephants grow full-size tusks. The rest of the males and females grow smaller tusks, called tushes. Elephants use ...

The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of the distribution of the elephant corpses showed that they clustered near ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades ...

Tragically though, for the second time in the last century, elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks at rates that are causing severe population declines across the continent.

Raw tusks are not Bernales’s only medium ... it is “highly likely” that poachers killed at least 25,000 African elephants in 2011. The true figure may even be double that.