tusker

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The tusker had been spotted in the state's Cumbum town on 27 May.

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

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

He was a tusker of most forbidding appearance, and the instant his wicked little eyes fell upon Donalblane he bristled up and began gnashing his tusks ominously.

From Donalblane of Darien by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)