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tusks .
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Examples
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When the tusks get broken -- a not uncommon thing -- he must remain toothless or "tuskless" for the rest of his life.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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When the tusks get broken -- a not uncommon thing -- he must remain toothless or "tuskless" for the rest of his life.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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She was tuskless, leaving no motive for poachers to have shot her and we never found any signs of injury.
Eliza Deacon: A Happy Meal For The Chada Lion Pride Eliza Deacon 2011
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This means that the tuskless elephants have greater opportunity at reproduction (less competion from dead tusked elephants) and father more elephants (they're around longer to have more sex), thus increasing the prevalence of the tuskless mutation.
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She had a brief image of a tuskless miniature mammoth or a glow-in-the-dark giant rabbit cavorting in the backyard.
THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by Ruth Nestvold | Fiction | Futurismic 2006
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Manatees are large, aquatic mammals whose face and body might be said to resemble an unusually elongated gray tuskless walrus with a protruding snout, smaller fins and no land capabilities.
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Manatees are large, aquatic mammals whose face and body might be said to resemble an unusually elongated gray tuskless walrus with a protruding snout, smaller fins and no land capabilities.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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Chinese elephants are evolving into an increasingly tuskless breed because poaching is changing the gene pool, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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“Therefore, the ones without tusks survive, preserving the tuskless gene in the species.”
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Only the male Asian elephant grow tusks, and only about five percent of the males are tuskless, or "makhnas".
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