What are an elephant's tusks used for?
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Elephants primarily use their tusks to pry bark off trees, dig in the ground and for some amount of intra-species conflict resolution (i.e. hitting other elephants).\n\nThey also use them as weaponry, spearing predators like lions that may pose a danger to the calfs.\n\nThey'll also use them like a table, spreading their food out on their tusks in front of them so they can get a better look at it and manipulate it more easily with their trunks.\n\nIn the case of extinct elephants like woolly mammoths, wear patterns on the underside of the tusks indicate that they also used them to sweep aside snow - probably very useful to reach the reindeer moss, lichen and grass under the snow in glacial periods.
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haha ive heard this one...open the fridge, ask the giraffe nicely to get out, then put the elephant in the fridge.
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What are you, an elephant?
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The Indian elephant, also called Asian elephant, is the highest off the ground at its head. The African Bush elephant is tallest at its shoulder. Also like was said the ears are a major difference and its size. Also male Indian elephants have tusks, female Indian elephants do not whereas African elephants both sexes have tusks. The Indian elephant is more easily trained as a mount and is easier to domesticate as a draft animal that will carry heavy logs and so forth. They can follow some 26 different commands. African elephants are too wild, chaotic, unpredictable and dangerous to have regular contact with humans or to be used as mounts, like horses.\n\nTo make things even worse there is the African Bush elephant AND the African Forest elephant on top of all that. A third species right there, if not even more. Why do they have to call it all separate species instead of just three races of a single animal is hard to tell. Maybe it has to do with elephant conservation and making the elephant population look lower than it actually is to give the animal more rights by only counting a smaller number of a particular species.
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What is it supposed to be used for?
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Reduction of heat loss. The short snout would aid in keeping heat in, and also would make for a goot burrowing tool for finding small animals.
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These are some nice websites that might help you out.\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400522&in_page_id=1770\nhttp://www.gan.ca/animals/elephants.en.html\nhttp://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Senses/senses.html\nhttp://news.softpedia.com/news/Elephants-Show-Compassion-and-Have-an-Awareness-about-Death-32660.shtml\nhttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/media/media513.shtml
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Two answers,  you pick the best\n1. A type of pack animal related to the ox.\n2. A very complicated sexual technique including a lampshade a baileys irish cream bottle.
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Ask your teacher to help you do the research that can verify what she meant by her answer, and perhaps together you can find out if there any truth to the other person's answer as well.\n\nSometimes two or more people can be correct when they are both giving different answers to the same question.\n\nWell, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?'"Thereupon the men who were presented with the head answered, 'Sire, an elephant is like a pot.' And the men who had observed the ear replied, 'An elephant is like a winnowing basket.' Those who had been presented with a tusk said it was a ploughshare. Those who knew only the trunk said it was a plough; others said the body was a grainery; the foot, a pillar; the back, a mortar; the tail, a pestle, the tuft of the tail, a brush.\n\n"Then they began to quarrel, shouting, 'Yes it is!' 'No, it is not!' 'An elephant is not that!' 'Yes, it's like that!' and so on."  This is the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
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An old, well-used ball glove or a duck decoy, something that could become a yearly traditional white elephant.
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It was used by the "mentats" in Frank Herbert's Dune series. \n\nSee Dune and the Children of Dune.
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it is used to expell worms.\nbe careful not do use for long periods.
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elephants never forget where an underground water source that they can dig up is located...same with watering holes.   it has also become a chiche
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Animal crackers, a picture of an elephant, an elephant hair accesory, an elephant key chain or an elephant patch sewn onto your pocket!
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almost exectly half  a metre, some times a litle bit less .sometimes a little bit more.depending on the age and the region\nthe elephant is fatter and longer(one metre) even though the girafe is taller\nso this goes to prove that the lenth of the neck does not determine the length of the penis.
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Not very many zoos have elephants.  They are very difficult and expensive to maintain and die young in zoos due to crippling arthritis and foot infections caused by lack of exercise.  San Francisco, Chicago, and several zoos released their elephants to sanctuaries so that they could have a more natural and healthy life.\n\nHere's a partial list of zoos that have elephants.\nhttp://savezooelephants.com/\nClick on "Campaigns" to see the list.  There are several other zoos in the country that have elephants as well.\n\nTucson, Phoenix, Tacoma, Atlanta, Bronx come to mind.
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I worked in a zoo for nine years and got to know our three elephants very well.  It is huge when they let one go.  The sound varies just like with humans.  The smell varies as well.  But the amount is very large every time.  It's like those big fans they use to create wind effects for movies.