What do poachers use elephant tusk for?

Answer 1

Elephant ivory (as well as the ivory of other animals) has been used as a medium for artists for thousands of years. Some of the most intricate carving has come out of the East, and specimens in museums today might cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase if they were for sale. The tusks continue to be displayed as a whole in a number of places. Ivory was also adapted for use to create billiard balls and to put on piano keys. It has always been used to make chop sticks, the handles of many items (like knives and guns), combs, brooches and other jewelry, and was inlaid in many, many different things. Use the link below to see a couple of pictures are learn more. What is arguably the best use of ivory is to let the elephant keep it for the length of its natural life. Elephants use their tusks in a number of ways that are useful to them in gathering food, defending themselves from enemies and in displays among themselves. That is exactly why the elephant developed its tusks, why it evolved them.

Answer 2

Ivory has availed itself to many ornamental and practical uses. Prior to the introduction of plastics, it was used for billiard balls, piano keys, Scottish Bagpipes, buttons and a wide range of ornamental items. Synthetic substitutes for ivory have been developed. Plastics have been viewed by piano purists as an inferior ivory substitute on piano keys, although other recently developed materials more closely resemble the feel of real ivory.

Answer 3

Everything from chopsticks to jewelry In Japan they like to make stamps with ivory.

Answer 4

they use tusks to sell it to people and get money and then they carve it and make fancy shapes

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