tusker
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"We can't say the tusker won't return to Kerala."
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
About sixty yards ahead a large tusker was standing apparently half asleep under the trees, its right side towards us.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
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