Tusk

While the poachers usually target the bull (male) elephants for their fuller tusks, they will kill the cows (females) and the calves if that is all they can find (“Polishing of the Ivory”). Without the dominant bull in an area, younger males can become overly aggressive and sexually charged, which reduces reproductive success (“Polishing of the Ivory”). Poachers usually target the elephants with the best, or biggest, tusks, usually males in their prime breeding years and the matriarch of a herd…

be the continuously growing change in elephants. Most elephants in the past were born with tusks. It was about 2-5% of all elephants that weren’t. However in the present day, more and more are being born without them, saving them from poachers. Numbers increased in the 90’s to 25% and now upwards of 38%. The more poaching being done in an area, the greater percentage of elephants that are born without tusks. If you want to read more into this, here’s one of the links I found:…

international trade of those resources. Africa supplied a wide array of resources that were new, and therefore very desirable, to the Europeans. Among these many resources that were exported from the African continent, ivory, the material that elephant tusks are composed of, was one of the most highly demanded. Ivory was used to make piano keys, decorative hair combs, and jewelry. It became a luxury that everyone wanted to have, and it…

the Indominus Rex, the Loxogiraffa Cameloserpentes breeds and grows in captivity. One of the first Loxogiraffa Cameloserpentes, Ella, was released into the wild after one year of captivity. With her snake tusks, Ella was able to defend herself in the wild. Without elephants’ famous Ivory tusks, the Loxogiraffa Cameloserpentes would not be hunted for human’s profit. The Loxogiraffa Cameloserpentes lives the beginning of their life in a lab and a confined area. In this area they live with other…

Kenya, a place in mid east Africa; home to thousands of endangered elephants. Humans aren’t the only living things seeking love and affection, animals do too. Not only do humans have an incredible bond with each other, but humans share this bond with elephants as well. With the ability to foster and adopt an elephant, Meghan Clark, author of “Fostering Family,” a story from U.S. Catholic, argues, “Elephants and humans share a deeply emotional and social nature” (8). Animals, as well as people,…

You’re hunting in the open savanna you haven't seen anything all day, and in the distance you see a big lion lying down. The lions lately have been killing more than antelope than usual, and decreasing the population. You have pull out your rifle and get ready to take down this beast. You set up your rifle in your blind. You look into your scope, put your finger on the trigger, and bang! Is Big game trophy hunting bad? No I do not believe that Big Game trophy hunting is bad. The first reason…

beer, but it's not the taste that makes it pricey but the packaging itself. Each bottle was crafted by a "Vancouver glass-blower and fitted with an ivory pendant carved from a 35,000-year-old mammoth tusk," as per CTV News. Each bottle were meticulously created by artist Richard Marcus. "(The tusks) are by-products of gold mining. The artist found a bunch of it from Yukon mining operations years ago. It's legal ivory ... no mammoths were killed just for this ivory," Walton explained to The…

He was a man with a keen interest in the study of life. He lived in England his whole life and got married to his first cousin, Emma. He was quiet and didn’t say much, but his findings, along with others, are the basis of modern biology. The man who possessed those characteristics was Charles Darwin. He was born in 1809 and at the age of 16, was sent off to medical school, which he had very little interest in. As matter of fact, he often skipped class to study the plants and animals of the…

Indonesian island of Sumatra. However, the Sumatran Elephant population has severely dropped. “They have lost 80% of their natural habitat to deforestation for palm oil plantations.” (a-z-animals.com). Poachers are also hunting them for their ivory tusks which is killing them off as well. “In 2012, the Sumatran Elephant was changed from “endangered” to “critically endangered” because half of it’s population has been lost in one generation.” (a-z-animals.com). Unfortunately, palm oil plantations…

Lee Ann Newsom’s presentation represented an archeologist’s styles of studying past biodiversity and human existences up to 12,000 years ago. The theme of Dr. Newsom’s presentation was the significance of worldwide wetlands for the study of human life staring in the Late Pleistocene era up to approximately 1500 A.D.. Dr. Newsom began by explaining the significance of her theme. Wetlands provide good environments for the preservation of sediment, since sediment creates hypoxic and anoxic…