Synonyms for tusks
tusks

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1. List of paraphrases for "tusks":

   defences, defenses, fenders, canines

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1. Samuel Wasser:

   Identifying close relatives indicates that poachers are likely going back to the same populations repeatedly -- year after year -- and tusks are then acquired and smuggled out of Central Africa on container ships by the same criminal network, this criminal strategy makes it much harder for authorities to track and seize these shipments because of the immense pressure they are under to move large volumes of containers quickly through ports.

2. Peter Houde:

   Ours would look pretty much just like modern elephants if they were alive today although the Cuvieronius had spiral tusks, their legs might be a bit stubbier, but themain difference from elephants is in their molar teeth, reflectinga diet more based on browsing than that of modern elephants.

3. Alan Houlihan:

   I thought it was a seal at first and then we saw the tusks.

4. Robert Boessenecker:

   That's hard to test, but modern dolphins do ram tusks and kill them.

5. Lisa Niziolek:

   Lisa Niziolek explained. In addition to ceramics, the ship was also carrying elephant tusks, possibly for use in medicine or art. Sweet-smelling resin, which could have been used for incense or for caulking ships, was also found. Previous carbon dating of the tusks and resin had dated the wreck to between 700 and 750 years ago. However, improved carbon dating techniques tell a different story. PIRATE MYSTERY : DOES THIS 300-YEAR-OLD BONE BELONG TO' BLACK SAM' BELLAMY ? When we got the results back and learned that the resin and tusk samples were older than previously thought, we were excited, we had suspected that based on inscriptions on the ceramics and conversations with colleagues in China and Japan, and it was great to have all these different types of data coming together to support it.