Have you ever wondered what an elephant's tusks are for? Indy, the Zoo's Asian bull elephant, has tusks, just like the rest of his species. Tusks are an elephant's incisor teeth, and, unlike the teeth ...

Tusks are an elephant’s multi-tool, a Swiss-army incisor for fighting off other elephants, scrounging in the dirt, and carving the bark off trees. So when a 35-year-old elephant named Bulwagi busted ...