† Joy is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 2010 at Endangered Ark Foundation, in United States, .
Joy was born wild 1980, captured 1982 .
I had a female African elephant, with only a right tusk. When I inquired when it had broke off, I was told that it wasn't broke off, but had actually been driven up into the cheek area. It seems she had been knocked down in a fight 6-7 years prior and fell face forward on the asphalt and the tusk was pushed up into her cheek/cranium. Sure enough, if you put your hand deep in the tusk cavity you could just feel the end of the tusk and if you looked at Joy(the elephant) face on, the left side of her cheek had a slight bulge just below the left eye. X rays confirmed the full tusk was up there but she never appeared to suffer any discomfort because of it. //Wade Burck Apologies to Jim Stockley, Circus No-Spin Zone, 2008-09-28
I had a female African elephant, with only a right tusk. When I inquired when it had broke off, I was told that it wasn't broke off, but had actually been driven up into the cheek area. It seems she had been knocked down in a fight 6-7 years prior and fell face forward on the asphalt and the tusk was pushed up into her cheek/cranium. Sure enough, if you put your hand deep in the tusk cavity you could just feel the end of the tusk and if you looked at Joy(the elephant) face on, the left side of her cheek had a slight bulge just below the left eye. X rays confirmed the full tusk was up there but she never appeared to suffer any discomfort because of it. //Wade Burck
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