Elephants have long been recognized using branches ... while only some male Asian elephants have prominent tusks. Smaller tusks can be found in both female and male Asian elephants.

A male elephant’s tusks are bigger and heavier than ... its numbers—and its tuskedness—varies. Among Asian elephants, for example, a long history of hunting for ivory—as well as removing ...

While male Asian elephants have tusks ... removes them from the breeding gene pool. Thus, strong and long tusk genes cannot be passed onto the next generation. In theory, if all tusked elephants ...

With their characteristic long trunks, floppy ears and thick ... but only a few male Asian elephants grow full-size tusks. The rest of the males and females grow smaller tusks, called tushes.

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins ... they use their tusks to dig up dry riverbeds and ...

It has large ears, a long trunk, and long and curved tusks ... elusive and endangered of all elephants, with an estimated population of 100,000 individuals. The Asian elephant is the second ...

A stock photo shows an Asian elephant with long tusks. An elephant attacked its owner with its tusks in Thailand, ripping him in half. A stock photo shows an Asian elephant with long tusks.

Asian elephants are smaller, with rounded ears and tusks mainly in males ... sounds including low-frequency rumbles that can travel long distances.Asian elephants also live in matriarchal herds ...

These results provide potential explanations for behavioral differences between African and Asian elephants as well as for the pachyderms' long youth ... females have no tusks -- and some of ...

These results, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, provide potential explanations for behavioral differences between African and Asian elephants as well as for the pachyderms' long youth ...