tusker

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A Kenyan elephant, thought to have been Africa's largest female tusker, has died of old age, wildlife officials have said.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2022

After a large tusker was electrocuted by low-hanging power lines in December, the herd returned the following day to trample the crops where he’d been buried.

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

"Send a couple of these fellows to the keddha to tell Immat to bring out his tusker, with a couple of ropes."

From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.