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each others foreheads
Trunks come in handy for more than just greeting in
elephant trunk has tens of thousands of
entire human body has fewer than 650. For instance,
clephant babies suck their trunks for comfort, just as
human babies suck their thumbs. Trunks are also handy
for reaching
hanging food.
And chewing is no problem for these herbiverest Elephants
have back teeth the size of small
and, of course.
elongated incisor teeth called tusks. They use tusks to
things, pull bark of trees, clear paths, dig for
and water, fight enemies and impress other elephants.
Unfortunately, it's those amazing
that put
clephants' lives at risk. The desire for tusk ivory is the
reason so many elephants have been slaughtered.
White Gold
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From the days of ancient Egypt and Rome, clephant tusk
ivory has been a valuable commodity. More recently, it's
been used to make billiard balls.
and
decorative ornaments. In order to get the ivory, elephants
are killed and their tusks are sawed off. In 1979, there
were an estimated 1.3 million clephants in Africa. By 2007
that number had dropped to between 472,000 and 690,000.
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Today, in many parts of the world, ivory or 'white gold"
remains a
of wealth and status, especially in
Asia. With the spending power of a growing middle class in
countries such as
the demand for illegal ivory
is increasing
Elephants communicate by grunting, whistling, snorting,
bellowing, rumbling,
and stomping. Some
of these sounds may travel 20 miles or more through the
ground,
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