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Elephant & piggie waiting is not easy5/21/2023 We’re all seeing that where there is better frontline protection there is less poaching, but we aren’t out of the woods yet. The need for anti-poaching efforts is still very real. How is TNC helping save elephants in Kenya and Tanzania? Where are we focusing our efforts and why? However, poaching unnaturally removes theose with the largest tusks from the population, causing some elephants to now be born with smaller or nonexistent tusks. Males with the biggest tusks sire the most offspring. Males also use tusks for sparring other males for mating opportunities. Elephants use their tusks to pull bark off trees, dig up roots and water holes, and for protection. Elephants suck water up through the trunk and then blow it into their mouths for a drink or onto their backs as a cooling mist.īoth male and female African elephants have visible tusks. Yet its sensitive tip has two finger-like projections, which an elephant can use to manipulate very small objects. A very long prehensile nose (trunk) with two finger-like featuresĪn elephant's trunk is a strong appendage, with more than 40,000 muscles and tendons that can lift more than 400 pounds at once.Their large ears are shaped like the continent of Africa.Both males and females have visible tusks.
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