For most crimes women (and the very young, the very old, and the infirm) could commute corporal punishment with cash payment. The only exception was a kind of sorcery (qu) involving the collecting of poison from scorpions and other venomous insects, which seems to have been regarded as a particularly female crime.
Ivory poaching for tusks is the main reason that elephants have been so heavily hunted. Elephant ivory has been used in huge amounts to make billiards balls, piano keys, identification chops and many other items for human enjoyment.here is also a display element to tusks and they can attract the interest of females. Evidence suggests that elephants normally prefer one tusk over the other, similar to being left or right handed in humans. The preferred tusk is known as the master tusk.
Despite their usefulness, the tusks -- which, in the elephant's case, are overgrown incisor teeth -- make the planet's largest terrestrial creature attractive to poachers, who covet their ivory due to its high commercial value. Both female and male African elephants have tusks.