Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...

Visitors can book tours where guests can take safari jeeps into the jungle to view the amazing and ... threat with their powerful tusks and stomping feet. An elephant alone is more vulnerable ...

Franko Khoury/ National Museum of African Art, SI Bearers hoisting elephant ... tusks—artifacts newly added to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. (Two of the ivories go on view ...