Did you know that an elephant's tusks are actually considered incisor teeth? The elephant uses it's tusks for digging, fighting and moving objects. Like we humans, an elephant is right-tusked or left-tusked, the same way we are right-handed or left-handed. The more dominant tusk, called the master tusk, is usually smaller due to more use. The largest elephant tusk ever recorded was 11.5 feet long, weighing 214 pounds! Remarkable!
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| In this picture, it is easy to tell the master tusk is on the elephant's left side. |
After learning that elephants are being slaughtered with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades for their tusks (National Geographic Magazine "Blood Ivory" October, 2012), I no longer see ivory as beautiful, unless it is attached to a living elephant in the wild. Please join me in refusing to buy ivory products.
Rwanda, Africa
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