Poachers make their own bullets which often wound elephants rather than killing them. These elephants die later, and their tusks rot in the sun.

Elephants use their tail hair to flick away flies and tics. One tail can have enough hair for 4 bracelets.

It is illegal to buy & sell any part of an elephant, yet a tourist can buy a bracelet of foot cartilage or tail hair for $50 in Dar's Mwenge Market.

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