tusker

Example Sentences

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They plan to approach the courts to bring the tusker back.

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

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

Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig's eyes glowing like hot coals, was just lifting himself out of the misty river.

From The jungle book by Kipling, Rudyard