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Isilo (c. 1956 – 2014) was one of South Africa’s largest African elephants and the largest living tusker in the southern hemisphere before his death. [1] [2] He was known as a tusker, a male elephant with tusks weighing over 100 pounds.
A unit called "The Great Tuskers of AWE" [17] was created to march in Mardi Gras parades with a large fiberglass elephant float and The Krewe of Tusk and Horn [18] marched on World Animal Day in the French Quarter. In neighboring Kenner, Louisiana, a 16-foot tall elephant sculpture was erected. [19]
The Tamil movie Kumki (2012), which revolves around a mahout and his trained elephant, shows the elephant in musth towards the climax. Captive elephants are either trained for duties in temples and cultural festivals or trained as a kumki elephant which confronts wild elephants and prevents them from entering villages. Elephants trained for ...
Elephant tusks are sexually dimorphic, being on average larger in males than in females, and entirely absent in female Asian elephants. Elephants with large tusks each at least 45 kilograms (99 lb) in weight are known as "tuskers", sometimes also called "big tuskers" or "great tuskers".
Dida was a tusker elephant, meaning her tusks were so large they reached the ground. She was considered the iconic matriarch in Tsavo East National Park. Kenya's famous matriarch elephant has died
Millangoda Raja (c. 1938 – 30 July 2011: Sinhala: මිල්ලන්ගොඩ රාජා), also known as Millangoda tusker, was a Sri Lankan elephant.Over 9 feet tall and with 7.5 foot (2.3 meters) long tusks, he was considered to be among the longest tusked captive Asian elephant during his lifetime.
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The families Choerolophodontidae and Amebelodontidae (the latter of which includes "shovel tuskers" with flattened lower tusks like Platybelodon) are sometimes considered gomphotheres sensu lato, [11] [12] [13] though some authors argue that Amebelodontidae should be sunk into Gomphotheriidae. [14]