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One of the Birmingham Zoo's elephants will undergo surgery to have his tusk removed in May. Bulwagi, a 35-year-old African elephant, lost one of his tusks in an accident when he was younger, years ...
Billy, a 7-year-old Asian elephant who came to the Denver Zoo in 2013, is considered a kid at heart who loves digging in the dirt with his tusks, eating melons, tossing logs around and swimming.
Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s male African elephant has a reputation for cracking or breaking tusks. He did it at his previous home at San Diego Zoo Safari Park , and it has happened at Chaffee Zoo, too ...
Indy, the Zoo's Asian bull elephant, has tusks, just like the rest of his species. Tusks are an elephant's incisor teeth, and, unlike the teeth of most mammals, tusks do not stop growing.
FRESNO – An elephant at a California zoo has been cured of a bad habit of cracking its tusks thanks to some added bling. Officials at Fresno Chaffee Zoo say Vus’Musi, a male African elephant ...
Warren, one of six elephants imported to Omaha from Africa in 2016, died during a procedure on Thursday, to the shock of the zoo’s veterinarians. He had been the lone ...
Dentist treats broken elephant tusk at Sedgwick County Zoo by: Wil Day. Posted: Oct 28, 2024 / 09:07 PM CDT. Updated: Oct 29, 2024 / 08:12 AM CDT.
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - An elephant at Zoo Miami is receiving some much-needed care after he injured his tusk. Doctors at the zoo said on Thursday that Ongard was exploring his habitat ...
Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s male African elephant has a reputation for cracking or breaking tusks. He did it at his previous home at San Diego Zoo Safari Park , and it has happened at Chaffee Zoo, too ...
Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s male African elephant has a reputation for cracking or breaking tusks. He did it at his previous home at San Diego Zoo Safari Park , and it has happened at Chaffee Zoo, too ...
To protect the male African elephant’s tusks, Fresno Chaffee Zoo enlisted a local company to make brass caps that protect him from possible infection.
Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s male African elephant has a reputation for cracking or breaking tusks. He did it at his previous home at San Diego Zoo Safari Park , and it has happened at Chaffee Zoo, too ...