they know when it is their timeand will travel to elephant graveyards if they are able. Most of the time， They have a designated area or 'elephant graveyard' they go toto pass away. Elephants will travel many miles to end up at the'elephant graveyard. In most cases， they no longercan eat and therefor starve to death. Elephants also die from poachers. The poachers take there tusks.They use the tusks to make jewelry and carve them. The tusks aremade from ivory. ， this will happen four times intheir lives. Once their teeth are eventually gone， elephants do not die of old age. For the mostpart， they die of starvation. They spend most of their lives eatingvegetation which requires a lot of chewing. Eventually their teethgrind down and then another one will take it's place. Similar tothe way we lose our baby teeth as we grow older and then a new onecomes in. With elephants however，。