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Reflect that, although the graph refers to tusks obtained from licensed kills, the selection pressure that produced the trend could well have come mostly from poaching.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Reflect that, although the graph refers to tusks obtained from licensed kills, the selection pressure that produced the trend could well have come mostly from poaching.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Sprouting behind the tusks was a snaggle of fangs that glistened razor-sharp in the argent twilight.

Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

Taking out the tusks was a delicate task: a slip of the axe would scar the ivory and halve its value.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

Only you would imagine that writing an article about elephant poaching in Kenya would be ambiguous without the author pompously trumpeting "Killing elephants illegally for their tusks is a huge sin and I condemn it in all possible terms."

Articles 2009

BTW, my first thought on seeing the "tusks" on the mole rat was that it had French fries stuck up its nose.

Creepy Crawly Cakes 2009

Before she woke up, he removed the "tusks" and put in the proper replacement teeth.

Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

When a man can kill bison for their tongues alone, bull elk for their "tusks" alone, and shoot a whole colony of hippopotami, -- actually damming a river with their bloated and putrid carcasses, all untouched by the knife, -- the men who do such things must be classed with the cruel wolf and the criminal dog.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

Mr. Batten adds that in imagining what kind of Demon the Eclipse Demon was, the Jataka writer was probably aided by recollections of some giant octopus, who has saucer eyes and a kind of hawk's beak, knobs on its "tusks," and a very variegated belly

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

Also the billet sensors (aka "tusks") were plastic and did not resemble the film ones in the least in terms of surface or, really, shape.

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