Old elephant eating after cleaned grass from dust, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Elephants usually have 26 teeth: the incisors, known as the tusks, 12 deciduous premolars, and 12 molars. Unlike most mammals, which grow baby teeth and then replace them with a single permanent set of adult teeth, elephants have cycles of tooth rotation throughout their lives. The chewing teeth are replaced six times in a typical…

  • Produced by:
    Peter Prokosch
  • Year:
    01/03/2015

Old elephant eating after cleaned grass from dust, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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