A spectacular table at a jewellery shop at the Melrose Arch shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Themed as elephant tusks

A spectacular table at a jewellery shop at the Melrose Arch shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa in February 2015. Themed as elephant tusks

Elephant tusk

An elephant tusk at Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand in December 2009

Temple shrine

A shrine at Wat Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai, Thailand in September 2012

Tusks

An elephant resting its tusks on a post at the Samphran Elephant Ground and Zoo outside Bangkok in October 2008. I had never seen elephants do this before.