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Elephant Tusks Ivory poaching for tusks is the main reason that elephants have been so heavily hunted. Elephant ivory has been used in huge amounts to make billiards balls, piano keys, identification chops and many other items for human enjoyment.here is also a display element to tusks and they can attract the interest of females. Evidence suggests that elephants normally prefer one tusk over the other, similar to being left or right handed in humans. The preferred tusk is known as the master tusk.
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- Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks and teeth of animals, that is used in art or manufacturing. It consists of dentine, a tissue that is similar to bone. It has been valued since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, and dominoes.
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Ivory Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks and teeth of animals, that is used in art or manufacturing. It consists of dentine, a tissue that is similar to bone.It has been valued since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, and dominoes.lephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, killer whale, narwhal and wart hog are used as well. Elk also have two ivory teeth, which are believed to be the remnants of tusks from their ancestors.
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Walrus Tusks Walrus Tusks. We usually have a number of walrus tusks available. The Price varies with size, weight, and condition. Walrus are legally hunted for food by the Inuit in northern Canada. The walrus hunt also offers a strong bonding experience for members of the community.
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- In other animals, musk is used for scent-marking and courtship. Only the skunks have turned musk into olfactory muscle. When an adult skunk or its young are threatened, they may emit a musky fluid from a nozzlelike duct that protrudes from the animal’s anus.
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Deer musk Musk deer -- more commonly known as Kasturi in India-of the Himalayas is one of the most endangered species in the region. Scent glands from these deer can fetch thousands of rupees and are used for manufacturing perfume and medicine.
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Woolly mammoth The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans, who used its bones and tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings, and the species was also hunted for food.he habitat of the woolly mammoth is known as  mammoth steppe  or tundra steppe. This environment stretched across northern Asia, many parts of Europe, and the northern part of North America during the last ice age.
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Muskox The muskox, also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, is an Arctic mammal of the family Bovidae, noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted during the seasonal rut by males, from which its name derives. This musky odor is used to attract females during mating season. Its Inuktitut name umingmak translates to the bearded one. Muskoxen primarily live in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, with small introduced populations in the American state of A
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musk musk (plural musks) A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
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- The narwhal tusk—most commonly found on males—is actually an enlarged tooth with sensory capability and up to 10 million nerve endings inside. Some narwhals have up to two tusks, while others have none. The spiraled tusk juts from the head and can grow as long at 10 feet.
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- The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.
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Narwhal Tusks Please see more information on how to order these items, shipping, and import/export controls on the Ordering page. There are a few hundred tusks from narwhal that are legally killed for food each year by the Inuit in northern Canada. The narwhal hunt also offers a strong bonding experience for members of the community and the sale of the tusks benefits the hunters.
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What are elephant tusks made of? In addition to the trunk and the big, floppy ears, one of the most recognizable features of an elephant are the tusks!
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- Musk is a whole class of fragrant substances used as base notes in perfumery. This wonderful animalistic note creates a groundwork on which the rest of the aromatic shades and nuances of the composition rest. Musk is the most commonly used raw material, present in almost all fragrant compositions.ost typically, the musk note is described as an animalistic nuance, with a lively and oscillating, often contrasting nature. The typical musky smell develops from the natural musk tincture once the volatile parts have evaporated, allowing the sensual and warm “true musky” notes to come up to the surface.
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musk musk (mŭsk) n. 1. a. A greasy secretion with a powerful odor, produced in a glandular sac in the abdomen of a male musk deer and used in traditional medicines and formerly in the manufacture of perfumes. b. A similar secretion produced by certain other animals, such as an otter or civet. c.
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- In India, turmeric plant leaf is used to prepare special sweet dishes, patoleo, by layering rice flour and coconut-jaggery mixture on the leaf, then closing and steaming it in a special copper steamer (goa).ost turmeric is used in the form of rhizome powder; in some regions (especially in Maharashtra, Goa, Konkan and Kanara), turmeric leaves are used to wrap and cook food. Turmeric leaves are mainly used in this way in areas where turmeric is grown locally, since the leaves used are freshly picked.
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Tusk Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth, usually but not always in pairs, that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canines, as with warthogs, pig, and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors.In most tusked species both the males and the females have tusks although the males' are larger. Tusks are generally curved, though the narwhal 's sole tusk is straight and has a helical structure.In the elephant, the tusks were originally second incisors. Continuous growth is enabled by formative tissues in the apical openings of the roots of the teeth.usks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth, usually but not always in pairs, that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canines, as with warthogs, pig, and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors.
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- Elephant and mammoth tusk ivory comes from the two modified upper incisors of extant and extinct members of the same order (Proboscidea). African and Asian elephants are both extant. Mammoths have been extinct for 10,000 years.
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- Tusk definition, (in certain animals) a tooth developed to great length, usually one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar, but singly in the narwhal. See more. Dictionary.com
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Definitions &Translations Musk(noun) a substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic.
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- 1 Today, the hunt is on for woolly mammoth tusks in the Arctic Siberia. 2  Due to global warming, the melting permafrost has begun revealing these hidden ivory treasures for a group of local tusk-hunters to find and sell. 3  A tusk can range from 10-13 foot in length and a top-grade mammoth tusk is worth around $400 per pound.
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Incan agriculture Illustration of Inca farmers using a chaki taklla, by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, 1616. A farmer using the chaki taklla in the village of Hatunqulla, Puno Region, Peru. A traditional hoe still used by many small farmers throughout Peru.
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Elephant Tusks Usually in mammals tusks are enlarged canine teeth, but in elephants they are actually elongated incisors and are essentially no different from other teeth. One third of the tusk is actually hidden from view, embedded deep in the elephant’s head.here is also a display element to tusks and they can attract the interest of females. Evidence suggests that elephants normally prefer one tusk over the other, similar to being left or right handed in humans. The preferred tusk is known as the master tusk.