elephant teeth are known as?
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Elephants usually have 26 teeth: the incisors, known as the tusks, 12 deciduous premolars, and 12 molars. Unlike most mammals, which grow baby teeth and then replace them with a single permanent set of adult teeth, elephants are polyphyodonts that have cycles of tooth rotation throughout their lives.
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Ivory tusks are actually massive teeth that protrude well beyond the mouths of elephants. Like our own teeth—and those of many mammals—these tusks are deeply rooted. Much of the tusk is made up of dentine, a hard, dense, bony tissue.
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Sometimes called tusks, whistlers, or buglers, the canine teeth of wapiti are most commonly known as ivories. Technically, ivory is the term for any animal tusk used as material for art or manufacturing.
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African Elephant. ... Both male and female elephants possess tusks, which are modified incisor teeth. Although tusks are present at birth, the “baby tusks” fall out after a year, and permanent ones replace them. These tusks will continue to grow throughout the elephant's life.
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Asian elephants are herbivores (folivores), feeding upon plants. Major components of their usual diet are grasses, leaves, roots, bark of trees and bushes.
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The rock hyrax has a pair of long, pointed tusk-like incisors. Males have larger and sharper tusks than females. 4. They're related to elephants and manatees.
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Wolf teeth are small, peg-like horse teeth, which sit just in front of (or rostral to) the first cheek teeth of horses and other equids. They are vestigial first premolars and the first cheek tooth is referred to as the second premolar even when wolf teeth are not present.
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Therefore, "ivory" can correctly be used to describe any mammalian tooth or tusks of commercial interest which is large enough to be carved or scrimshawed. Teeth and tusks have the same origins. ... The teeth of most mammals consists of a root and the tusk proper.
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California scientists discover mouse-like mammal related to elephants. ... “It turns out this thing that looks and acts like shrews that evolved in Africa is more closely related to elephants,” said Dumbacher, a curator of birds and mammals at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
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Wild taro, dasheen – Colocasia esculenta Wild taro is also known as elephant's ear. However, elephant's ear more properly applies to another species of plant. Wild taro is one of the best-known aquatic plants; however, it is an exotic, having been imported from the Pacific Islands.
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The tooth consists almost entirely of dentine and is considered a form of ivory. The Inuit peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska were the first to develop the art of scrimshaw, which is the carving of scenes on the surface of sperm whale teeth with sharp needles or the point of a knife.
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Fawns typically have only three or four fully erupted teeth along each side of the jaw. The first three are temporary premolars (P1, P2 and P3) and are called “milk teeth” because deer are born with these teeth in place.
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All animals have teeth that are adapted to eating certain types of food. For instance, herbivores, because they are plant eaters, have strong and flat molars that are made for grinding leaves and small or non-existent canine teeth.
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The premolars and molars are together known as cheek teeth. Cattle first develop 20 temporary teeth, known also as deciduous, milk, or baby teeth. These temporary teeth eventually fall out and are replaced with 32 permanent or adult teeth as an animal matures.
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Sheep have no teeth in the front part of the upper jaw which consists of a dense, hard, fibrous pad. When born, the lamb usually has no teeth. Within a week after birth, the milk teeth or temporary teeth appear in the front lower jaw and by the time the lamb is two months old these, eight in all, have erupted.
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Elephants are mammals of the family Elephantidae and the largest existing land animals. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant.
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A baby elephant suggests imminent power - a potential to be a great one, a wise one, a powerful one. But, also being at risk, because there are those in the world who would kill this magnificent creature for something so trivial as its teeth.