tusks

So the tusks were probably described correctly (semi-correctly) for the most part, but the size is totally wrong, which is weird.

It's a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.

Discovering that a majority of the tusks came from a particular park is stopping the network where it operates.

Interesting, are the tusks vascularized or is the DNA material coming from the interface between tusk and growth center?

Of course this spirals down into us killing everything that moves and has meat, fur, tusks, whatever...

Ivory is elephant tusk, and people in the past didn't always distinguish between tusks, bones, and teeth.

If the later, could poaches therefore prevent tracking with proper cleaning and preparation of the tusks?

Most of the time, poaching is easy to discover because there is a dead elephant on the ground missing its tusks.

While there, you see a stack of elephant tusks in the back of his truck.

Another possibility is that elephants wore armor on their tusks that appeared to double them.

His Tusks of Extinction uses the sci-fi notion of brain transfer and bringing back mammoths to explore the economical pressures behind poaching.

They would butcher it themselves and take the meat with them (and the tusks).

"hey, I saw a thing with huge tusks but it was not bigger than a boar." Or perhaps the one who drew this just imagined a strange boar, and never heard of the tusks.

My point is that it also pushes quite a bit of resources towards things that are not nearly as useful as those, so claiming it's "exactly that" is like claiming that animals in a zoo with tusks are "exactly" the walruses that they have and ignoring all of elephants in the room.

They're for battle (defence against predators animals as well as combats between males, in these case they also act as "bumpers" to protect the fragile trunk), and hard tasks: the trunk handles precision stuff, the tusks are used to move crap out of the way, dig for water or roots, removing bark from trees.

Tusks are similar to teeth, so there is a nerve root, etc.