tusker
Example Sentences
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In April, a court-appointed committee of experts decided it would be better to translocate the tusker.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023
“This is a big tusker, a male elephant that we’re planning to collar,” Shanmugavelu said.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2020
Satao II was believed to be around fifty years old; he was named after Kenya’s greatest tusker, Satao, who was killed by poachers in 2014.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2017
It was certainly a giant tusker, but it was hard to tell if this was Satao, as the face was mutilated face and the tusks gone.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
Better is the lonely life, for fools companions cannot be; Live alone and do no evil, live alone with scanty needs, Lonely, as the mighty tusker in the forest lonely feeds.
From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Frank Lee Woodward
