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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spirit-of-shiloh, post: 13544, member: 32&quot;]<font size="4"><b><b>If an elephant breaks a tusk it will grow back.</b></b></font></p><p>False! Tusks are teeth and just like our teeth, if one is broken, it stays broken. But unlike our teeth, a tusk can continue growing from the root if that isn’t damaged. It’s not unusual to see an elephant with only one tusk because the other was injured to the point that it stopped growing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tusk is the equivalent of our incisor teeth (the tooth on either side of our two front teeth). It is made of ivory, a material soft enough to be carved, which is the root of the poaching problem.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.rbl.ms/268721/980x.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />One of the largest tusks ever found was about 10 feet long and weighed over 200 pounds. Tusks can grow up to seven inches a year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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