Hilary Farr

Year after year, animal print, hides, fur, tusks et al find their way into the home as design elements in various spaces; not surprising, considering that the use of 'animalia' as decor in the home dates back centuries, when, to be fair, they didn't have the choice of faux and tended to eat the animals as well as enjoy their pelts.

British Designer

Ben Fogle

Armies and former soldiers are working in the field to help protect elephants. Some have suggested staining the ivory; cameras and trackers have even been embedded within the tusk; others have arranged for tusks to be removed pre-emptively by conservationists.

English Writer

Ivory is quickly becoming the new blood diamond of Africa and one that fuels militia battles. Some of the most notorious armed groups on the continent, including the Lord's Resistance Army, are hunting down elephants and using the tusks to buy weapons.

Peter Beard

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

American Artist

Alex Shoumatoff

The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.

American Writer

John Kani

When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.

South African Actor

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

American Journalist

Tusks are an animal body part, specifically elongated teeth, often associated with elephants.

Animal Anatomy

'Tusk' can be sensitive due to poaching issues, mainly when discussing ivory, which comes from tusks.

Conservation Status

Tusks are often symbols of strength and power in various cultures and stories.

Symbol of Strength

The word 'tusk' can describe objects resembling an animal's tusk due to their shape or protrusion.

Figurative Use

Geographical formations are sometimes referred to as 'tusks' because of their resemblance to actual tusks.

Nature's Sculptures

In architecture, 'tusk' can describe elements that are functional or decorative protrusions.

Architectural Elements

 They were large. They were hairy. They had large tusks, and we seem to have a very deep connection with them, like we do with elephants. Maybe it's because elephants share many things in common with us. They bury their dead. They educate the next of kin. They have social knits that are very close.

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 if they don't believe that these are real I said it's going to be very important George takes a couple of months he has made these perfect tusks they have the right feel as the right look he has the right density and the right sound you know if you cut a tusk in half like cutting a tree there are

How I Got Arrested...

 inches long and is pound-for-pound on at the fastest and toughest or not well I hadn't but this is the story of how I found on to enough years ago when I was 17 and how it rapidly changed my life Norton Kenya especially masturbate the land of tusks is a very hot and dry

Spotting the camel...

 including potential threats. Fortunately, while lions might attack a young or sickly elephant, few are foolish enough to take on a healthy adult. Weighing 3 tons and bearing powerful tusks nearly a meter long,

The incredible,...

 an hour there will be no easy meals on this island walruses are the largest seals in the world they weigh over a ton and are armed with tusks a metre long

Top 5 David Attenborough...

 are the largest seals in the world they weigh over a ton and are armed with tusks a metre long exhausted from his shrim the bear must regain his strength

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 There will be no easy meals on this island. Walruses are the largest seals in the world. They weigh over a ton and are armed with tusks a metre long.

Polar Bear vs Walrus PIPE...

 world they weigh over a ton and are armed with tusks a meter long exhausted from his swim the bear must regain his strength

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Best Polar Bear Moments...

 Forward-pointing tusks can stab right through protective blubber.

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