The elephants are poached for their tusks.
为获取象牙而偷猎大象。
Suddenly a massive bull elephant with huge tusks charged us.
突然，一只体形壮硕、长着巨型象牙的雄象朝我们冲了过来。
In Africa elephant tusks or salt were used.
在非洲，人们使用象牙或盐。
Safari used to mean coming home with lion skins and elephant tusks, but modern photo-safaris result mostly in great snapshots and stories.
狩猎之旅曾经意味着带着狮子皮和象牙回家，但现代摄影狩猎之旅的结果大多是很棒的快照和故事。
North America was populated by a wide variety of great beasts, like mammoth and mastodons, both elephant-like creatures with big tusks, and camels, giant sloths, the list goes on.
在北美洲生活着各种各样的巨兽，如猛犸象和乳齿象，都是长着巨大象牙的象状动物，还有骆驼和巨大的树懒，名单待续。
So let me sharpen my tusks while I can.
所以让我尽可能磨尖我的牙。
The fate of the tusks is unknown.
那些象牙的命运我们不得而知。
They also made tools and objects from the tusks.
他们还用猛犸獠牙制成工具器物。
I am gray, tan or light brown with yellowish-white tusks.
我是灰色、茶褐色或浅棕色的，象牙黄白色。
The tusks of 58 elephants, worth $1.3m, were in metal boxes.
而价值130万美元的58头大象象牙则装在金属箱内。
A: a big mammal with thick skin, long trunk, big ears and white tusks.
一种长着厚皮，长鼻子，大耳朵和白色象牙的哺乳动物。
Elephant tusks are ivory teeth that grow throughout the animals' lives.
象牙的生长贯穿于象的全部生命。
It contains many bones and tusks of mammoths which Taymyr is so rich in.
这里有很多猛犸象的骨骼和獠牙，这些遗骸在泰梅尔地区是十分丰富的。
There is evidence that mammoth tusks have been traded for at least 2, 000 years.
有证据表明猛犸象象牙交易至少2000年前就开始了。
Thai customs last month spotted $3.3m-worth of tusks under a pile of frozen fish.
上个月泰国海关从一堆冻鱼底下查获了价值3300万的象牙。
Depending on quality, five-metre-long mammoth tusks can sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
猛犸象象牙价格视质量而定。 一根5米长的象牙可以卖到数万美元。
Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees.
雄性和雌性非洲象的象牙是用于掘食、掘水以及剥取树皮的。
Some biologists reckon the forest ones—smaller, with shorter, straighter tusks—may even constitute a distinct species.
一些生物学家们也表示，生活于森林中的象群（其身体稍小，牙齿稍短但更直挺）也许能单独成为一个物种。
Mothers teach their pups crucial skills, such as how to spot polar bears and how to haul out onto the ice using their tusks.
妈妈教会小海象重要的技能，比如，如何认出北极熊，如何用獠牙把自己拖上冰块。
Alive, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds; dead, he would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds, possibly.
这头象，活着能值至少一百英镑，死了就只有象牙能值点钱了，五个英镑吧，也就这么多了。
The tusks stuck out above and below the jaw like a modern warthog, said Larsson. "This has never been seen before on any crocodile."
长牙象现代的野猪一样从上下颌伸出，Larsson说“这种特征以前从未在鳄鱼身上发现。”
Walruses frequently use ice floes to rest while they digest a meal, usually consisting of shellfish pried from the seafloor using their long tusks and strong lips.
海象在消化食物时，经常利用浮冰休息。它们食物一般由用象牙和有力的嘴唇从海底撬出的贝类食物组成。
About 1, 500 tusks were discovered and all were traced to elephants from the Selous game reserve, a Unesco heritage site in Tanzania, and the nearby Niassa game reserve in Mozambique.
那次大约发现了1500根象牙，所有的象牙都被查出是来自坦桑尼亚的联合国教科文组织遗产地区塞卢斯禁猎区以及附近的莫桑比克尼亚萨禁猎区。
The first tusk was sold in London as far back as 1611 and by the 18th century tusks were so abundant they were being transformed into chess sets, billiard balls, piano keys and even snuffboxes.
早在1611年，第一根猛犸象象牙在伦敦出售。到18世纪，大量象牙被发掘，加工成国际象棋、台球、钢琴键、甚至鼻烟壶。
The Arctic mammals, known as "sea unicorns" thanks to their single long tusks, also transmitted measurements for the winter layer of surface water that shields sea ice from the warmer waters below.
这种因为长着一根长牙而被称为“海洋独角兽”的北冰洋哺乳动物，同时还传输冬季海水表面的温度，这层海水将海面冰层和下面温暖的海水隔离开来。
Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks.
由于象牙对某些人而言是宝，所以许多大象因此而惨遭猎杀。
Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks.
由于象牙对某些人而言是宝，所以许多大象因此而惨遭猎杀。
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