Tusks in a sentence

After analyzing the genes of these tusks, they found that 26 of the seizures contained genetically similar tusks.

However, vision in this species appears to be more suited for short-range. citation Tusks and dentition The most prominent feature of the walrus is its long tusks.

The jaws and tusks of peccaries are adapted for crushing hard seeds and slicing into plant roots, and they also use their tusks for defending against predators.

I noticed a pair of narwhal tusks fastened to a wall, the relics of bygone fishing trips to the frozen North.

Nonetheless, Zunesha still wielded enough strength to protect his comrades and scatter the enemy fleet with a single blow from his tusks.

Only when the last of the animal's horns, tusks, skin and bones are sold to man, then we will realise that money and taste will never bring back our wildlife.

On our way back at sunset on one of our days on the park, there was a huge elephant in the middle of the road with its beautiful huge tusks but appearing to be ready to charge if we moved.

Rick Cochrane, Gulfport resident and science teacher at Admiral Farragut Academy, poses in front of the mastodon teeth and tusks he found near the Peace River.

You can see these tusks and this head replica once again in Cattaraugus County at the library in Randolph, where it will hopefully reside for a long time.

One of them I really wanted to get because I’d heard the guys talking around the campfire about getting a hog with the biggest cutters (lower canine teeth called tusks).

Pigs tend to grow tusks from the age of two.

The mammoth would have stood at least three metres tall, with shaggy brown fur, a sloped back, a heavy pair of tusks and large feet adapted to withstand temperatures as low as -40 C, he says.

Botswana has recently announced a decision to recommence elephant trophy hunting, and export quotas for the tusks of 400 elephants have been issued for this year.

Historically, the hunting of elephants was a rather common practice, mostly due to the high demand for the ivory found in their tusks.

Leakey wanted to stigmatize the ivory trade by treating poached tusks in the same way that police treated cocaine seized from drug traffickers.

Now, experts estimate only 300 remain, living in small groups or isolation and vulnerable to poachers seeking their tusks for ivory.

Rangers had ruled out cyanide poisoning or poaching because the animals were found with their tusks intact.

A rare and complete woolly mammoth skeleton, pictured at auction in March 2019, includes ivory tusks favoured by elephant poachers.

He points to the potential booty for poachers from ivory tusks, giraffe skins, pangolin scales and gorilla meat.

In 2011, two pairs of elephant tusks were seized by Income Tax officials from Mohanlal’s residence in Thevara, Kochi.