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  • Tusks of the two small elephants were not taken.
  • Also known as scotia, she is depicted as an old hag with the teeth of a wild bear and boar's tusks.
  • Its upper incisors form long curved tusks of ivory.
  • Sections of mammoth tusks have been discovered in local gravel pits.
  • The props on comer's desk include period pipes, maps, and a walrus tusk.
  • Tusks of a male wild boar, possibly to mark out his territory.
  • Elephant's tusks are large teeth growing from the upper jaw.
  • Both sexes have tusks, which are actually overgrown teeth from the upper jaw.
  • With the asian elephants, only some males grow large ivory tusks.
  • The third smaller ivory tusk finial from the congo has figures seated in separate rows, rather than a spiral.
  • Tusks indicate age as the tusks of young walruses do not become visible for at least a year and a half after birth.
  • The heads have a hole in the top that was intended to hold a large carved ivory tusk.
  • It is very rare to find a male with evenly long tusks.
  • Ivory strictly speaking, the word ivory only applies to the material from which elephant tusks are comprised.
  • Tusks of ivory.
  • With the asian elephants, only some males grow large ivory tusks.
  • Ganesha's most unusual facet is his single tusk, the other having broken off.
  • Among them is the narwhal tusk used as a walking cane by captain john wood, who owned a fleet of whalers.
  • Mature males are most aggressive to each other during the autumn rut when potentially fatal injuries can be inflicted from their sharp tusks.
  • Most of these elephants had large ivory, however small tusks of the two small elephants were not taken.

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