tusker
Example Sentences
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Visuals of Arikoban's latest capture raised concerns about the number of times the tusker had been tranquilised and the injuries the animal had suffered as he was transported by officials in an open truck.
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
Good are well-tamed mules, and good are Scindian steeds of lineage famed; Good indeed the mighty tusker; best of all the man self-tamed.
From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Woodward, Frank Lee
