PAIR OF AFRICAN ELEPHANT TUSKS. ...

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PAIR OF AFRICAN ELEPHANT TUSKS
Loxdontaa africana
The African Elephant is larger than the Asian Elephant (the one most usually found in zoos and circuses) and it is a thriving species, even overpopulated in some areas due to strict hunting regulations. They can often be destructive of farmer's crops and are very dangerous when cornered or wounded. Elephants are right or left-tusked just as humans are right or left-handed and this usually causes one tusk or the other to be shorter due to habitual foraging and digging on that one side; tusks are often also scarred and scratched up from life in the African Bush. This pair came from a large old Bull taken many years ago and they were left in their natural state and not polished to a shiny finish. They measure 74¾ x 63 inches long on the outside curve with circumferences 16¼ x 16¾ inches at the thickest point and weighed approximately 130 pounds when harvested.

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