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

“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

We afterwards learned that it had been fired over the head of a big tusker elephant that stood under a tree not many yards from the man who fired.

From The Eagle Cliff by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)