Do All Elephants Have Tusks
Typically 2 to 6 percent of elephants are born without tusks almost all female. When we moved our first big tusker to Addo he. The Mystery Of The Disappearing Elephant Tusk This is cause for alarm or hope depending on your viewpoint. Do all elephants have tusks . Learn more about elephants. All African male as well female have tusks whereas only few males have tusks in Asian subspecies. About half of Asian female elephants have short tusks known as tushes. This is similar to how humans are left- or right-handed. However looking at an elephants tusk the average size of tusks has decreases over the past hundred years due to the poaching of elephants for their ivory tusks. Some female Asian elephants have very tiny tusks called tushes but no long tusks. Its rare to see a tuskless male elephant because in the absence of poaching males naturally grow larger tusks since they use them more. Male tusks have a length of one and a half meters. All African elephants male and