Does a tiger have much chance in an attack against an elephant? And why would a tiger pick up on something much larger than ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential ... its value comes largely down to cultural status and scarcity. The difficulty of hunting an elephant in older times — accompanied ...

Trophy hunting advocates fear that a similar fate ... and you’re in the middle of it.” The elephant’s tusks, which will hang on Sitterle’s wall in Texas one day, were an important part ...

In 1975, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species banned ivory trading; however illegal tusk hunting still continues. Now hunters cut the elephant tusks to take ivory, but the ...

Tusks are measured by weight ... “The shooting is the last 5 percent of an elephant hunt,” Marnewecke said. “I feel quite shitty when an elephant dies, but those elephants pay for the ...