tusker

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"We can't say the tusker won't return to Kerala."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2023

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

With elephant numbers in free-fall in many places, losing even one big tusker is damaging to a herd.

From National Geographic • Oct. 17, 2015

The king of the group, a magnificent tusker, pushed the logs with his snout and tusks, while the others pulled them with chains.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton