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
"Send a couple of these fellows to the keddha to tell Immat to bring out his tusker, with a couple of ropes."
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
