Both sexes of African elephants still have tusks. However, a recent study revealed that many females are born tuskless. While there is a large proportion of tuskless females, tuskless males are ...

Expert Cynthia Moss, the director of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya, recalled the ordeal of an elephant family after a matriarch, Big Tuskless, passed away due to natural causes. Moss ...

recalled the ordeal of an elephant family after a matriarch, Big Tuskless, passed away due to natural causes. Moss retrieved the jawbone of the elephant and brought it to the research camp to ...

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According to a U.S. scientific journal, tuskless females accounted for 18 percent of the local elephant population before the civil war but rose to 33 percent among those born after the war.

Among them is the notorious Belur Makhna, a makhna elephant (tuskless male) that terrorised Chaligadda near Payyampalli last year, killing a man on February 11, 2023. The elephant was sighted grazing ...