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Obvious problems with elephant farming, as an industry: 1. You need very large fences to keep elephants in. 2. Elephants eat a lot. 3. Elephants take about f
by hugh4 11y ago
Obvious problems with elephant farming, as an industry:
1. You need very large fences to keep elephants in.
2. Elephants eat a lot.
3. Elephants take about fifteen years to grow to full size.
4. Elephants don't breed very often.
5. You only get one pair of tusks per elephant.
- rgovind 11y ago1. You need very large fences to keep elephants in. You just dig ditches around the farms.
- kalleboo 11y ago> 5. You only get one pair of tusks per elephant. Actually, tusks are continually growing, like our hair and nails. I've read proposals to farm a "sustainable" amount of tusk (Google says they grow 15 cm per year). The Chinese market isn't looking for huge tusks for display but rather a powder to put in traditional remedies.
- hugh4 11y agoOkay, I stand corrected on that one. However, the Chinese traditional medicine market would do just as well with chalk dust, I assume.
- adamnemecek 11y ago> Chinese market isn't looking for huge tusks for display but rather a powder to put in traditional remedies. It's both actually. I believe that it's actually mostly bought in the form of carved ivory and to a lesser extent for powder for traditional remedies.