...are still more uncommon. Sir Samuel Baker says that not more than one in 300 is provided with them. It is difficult to imagine what can cause the vital difference of tusks and no tusks between the elephants of the continent and of Ceylon, as they are of the same species, and the climate and their...

...as the Indian refers to the fact that the males are in the majority of cases tuskless. He writes : " It is difficult to imagine what can cause the vital...as also their food ; and I have not seen any theory sdvanced that seems at all well founded to account for their absence in the Ceylon elephant." As an...

...provided with them. Out of 140 elephants, of which 51 were males, which I captured in Mysore and Becgal in 18*74-76, only 5 were mucknas. It is difficult...between the male elephant of continental India and Ceyloa The climate may be said to be the same, as also their food ; and I have not seen any theory...

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...are still more uncommon. Sir Samuel Baker ,ys that not more than one in 300 is provided with them. It is difficult to imagine what can cause the vital difference of tusks, anil no tusks, between the elephants of the Continent and of Ceylon, as they are of the same species,...