Tusk

Gentle Giants The Walrus Morgan Walrus are gentle giants . Although they may look huge and scary the aren't aggressive. They are the largest fin-footed semiaquatic marine mammal.Semiaquatic means it is half of its water in the water half the time it is out on ice. Description Walrus are mammals with brown and pink hides and they weigh around 270 pounds. Walrus also have bags of water around them to keep them from getting hurt around objects that jab them. Additionally , they have blubber…

Narwhals are commonly names to be the unicorn whale because of the horn or tusk. Narwhals scientific name is monodon monoceros. The narwhals’ domain is Eukaryotic because it has a nucleus. The kingdom of narwhals is animalia. The phylum for dolphins is chordata the class of narwhal is mammalia. The geographic location for narwhal is in Greenland, Canada, Russia, and the Arctic Ocean. The biome where you can find narwhals is on the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Narwhals live in the icy waters of…

Arctic ocean. They weight as much as 1.5 tons and are 13 to 20 feet long. Narwhals grow two teeth. In males, the more prominent tooth grows into a spiral tusk. The tusks grow up to 8.8 feet long. This tusk grows through the narwhal’s upper lip. Females can too grow a small tusk, but it doesn’t get nearly as big as the male’s. The purpose of the tusk is unknown, but scientist believe it is important in mating rituals. Narwhals are near the top of the food chain, and are directly impacted by…

The Pacific walrus, or in scientific terms: Odobenus rosmarus divergens, is a large flippered marine mammal. The walrus is naturally a carnivore, and it is the only living species left in the family Odobenidae and the Genus Odobenus. This species is divided into three subspecies: the Pacific walrus, the Atlantic walrus, and the Laptev walrus. They are all named after where they live, for example the Atlantic walrus lives in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific walrus lives in the Pacific Ocean and…

rhinos from happening is I can, put SATcoms on the elephants and rhinos, make the horns cheaper and tusks cheaper, and make better devices that can track poachers down. Poaching is a terrible way to make money because not alone is it illegal but it also kills innocent animals, and they must be stopped. The first way that I would stop these poachers is; I would make the rhino horns and elephant tusks cheaper. I think that this is an excellent way to stop poachers from poaching. The reason I…

Narwhals Hey fifth grade! I find narwhals very interesting, and for one thing narwhals are also known as “the unicorns of the ocean”; because of their horn-like tusks. They are “one of the rarest whales in the world”. Narwhals diets consist of squid, fish, and shrimp. They are normally “found in the Atlantic and Russian parts of the Arctic”. Narwhals don’t move very fast until they are being chased by a predator”. Narwhals travel in groups of 10-100, or sometimes more. Narwhals are…

which is their tusks. Lots of poachers were armed with grenades and AK-47s, they killed more than 300 elephants at Bouba Ndjida National Park, Cameroon, in 2012. Poachers have killed 100,00 elephants in the last 3 years. The elephant population has declined by 64 percent in a decade and at this rate they will be extinct soon. Ivory is a very expensive material and is illegal to sell, but people are still selling ivory on the blackmarket for $1,500 a pound. Some elephants can have tusks up…

ivory tusks. The poachers later would sell the tusks on the black market for thousands. Poachers don’t only kill thousands of elephants they also go to every camp that they have access to and steal everything that is valuable. You may be asking yourself why would they kill the sweet elephants who have done nothing wrong to harm humans. As it turns out, these beautiful creatures have ivory tusks and “ivory is more profitable than heroin or raw diamonds,” so killing elephants for their tusks…

Have you ever wondered about the fascinating animals lurking beneath the mysterious ocean waves?You might find the narwhal,”the unicorn of the sea”,a bit interesting.Or the walrus,”the tooth -walking marine mammal”,might grab your attention.Both of these extraordinary animals are both different,but you might find some shocking similarities. These two marine mammals both have traits that help their life-style.One trait that these two share are short flippers and tails.These…

killing off these beautiful and sophic creatures. China is the leading country in ivory sales with almost 70% of all illegal ivory being shipped, and then sold at 10 times its average cost. In China, the trading of ivory is illegal unless: the tusks came from an extinct mammoth, were bought from the government stockpiles…