Elephants have very, very big hearts and they are highly emotional animals.
Ivory from elephant tusks is traditionally carved into products such as jewellery, figurines, and piano keys. Imports of ivory, including many antiques, from both Asian and African elephants are now generally prohibited. Purchase of ivory may provide an incentive to poachers and illegal traders and threaten the survival of the African elephant. Imports of ivory and scrimshaws from whales, walruses, and narwhales are also prohibited. Curiously symbolizing profligate luxury as well as purity, ivory has for uncounted millennia been procured from vast distances and masterfully carved into objects of rare beauty.