tusker

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Reports said locals living nearby protested its relocation, worried that the tusker could wreak havoc in their settlements.

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

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

As a king deserts his borders, by the enemy pursued, Like the tusker in the forest, go thy way in solitude.

From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Woodward, Frank Lee