The elephants are poached for their tusks.
为获取象牙而偷猎大象。
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。
They also made tools and objects from the tusks.
他们还用猛犸獠牙制成工具器物。
Malaysia seizes 695 pieces of tusks.
马来西亚海关缴获695根象牙。
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。
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。
It was about the same size as the woolly mammoth but had straight tusks and less hair.
它的个儿和毛象差不多，但是，它的象牙是直的，毛也要少些。
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。
Wild Boar was sharpening his tusks busily against the stump of a tree, when a Fox happened by.
有一只野猪在一根树桩上磨着自己的獠牙，这时有一只狐狸偶然经过。
As he said this, the elephant bent down on his knees and offered up his spectacular silvery-white tusks.
象王一边说着，一边弯下膝盖，献出了他那银白色的巨大象牙。
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 walrus, with its tusks and whiskers, is instantly recognizable and can outweigh the polar bear by more than a thousand pounds.
长着长牙和胡须的海象能够一眼被认出，而且体重可能超出北极熊一千磅以上。
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。”
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
长期以来，历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。
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。
When not in his chariot, indra rode on the great white elephant Airavata, who was always victorious, and who had four tusks which resembled a sacred mountain.
不驾双轮战车的时候，他骑着战无不胜的白象艾拉·瓦塔，它有着四颗象牙，如同一座圣洁的山。
Wildlife officials revealed that Satao, a giant elephant with tusks that nearly reached the ground, has died after being shot with poisoned arrows in late May.
野生动物官员透露，有着几乎长及地面长牙的萨韬，在五月底被毒箭射中后死亡。
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。
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。
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