tusker
Example Sentences
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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
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
One of the last remaining great "tusker" elephants in Kenya has died aged 50.
From BBC
Bull elephants are called “tuskers” when their tusks become so large they reach the ground, which takes many years to happen.
From The New Yorker
There are now fewer than 30 African "big tuskers" - adult bulls with ivory large enough to brush the ground - in the world.
From BBC
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