Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable ...

COIMBATORE: Officials of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) arrested five persons, including two temporary staff of the Tamil forest department, on charges of trying to sell two elephant tusks at ...

“The suspects were intercepted while transporting two elephant tusks concealed in a blue sack on a motorcycle,” NPS stated. The two are currently in police custody, waiting for arraignment in ...

While similar in composition to tusks, tushes are much smaller, reaching a maximum length of 5 cm (about 2 inches). Essentially, these tushes are the equivalent of a baby elephant’s ‘milk ...

Officials of the Forest Cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) caught a 27-year-old forest watcher while he was trying to sell two elephant tusks to prospective clients on Kollegal ...

And while the part of the tusk that we can see is intimidating in its own right, it’s just a fraction of the entire tusk — most of which is buried deep in the elephant’s mouth.

He explained that long tusks not only negatively affect the elephant’s health but also put his life at risk, as they are highly sought after by both legal and illegal ivory traders.

A group of blind men, curious about the elephant, decided to inspect it by touch. The first man, feeling the trunk, declared, “This being is like a thick snake!” The second, touching the ...

Two juvenile elephants greet each other in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. Credit: George Wittemyer Elephants communicate using specific calls that function like names, indicating complex social ...

Two men arrested in Vadodara city with valuable elephant tusks seized by special operations group (SOG). The tusks are being sent for DNA testing to determine their origin. Police investigating ...