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Satao (c. 1968 – 30 May 2014) was one of Kenya's largest African elephants.He was known as a tusker because his tusks were so long that they almost touched the ground. The Tsavo Trust announced that Satao was killed by poachers using a poisoned arrow on 30 May 2014.
The genus contains the largest known species of elephants, over 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the shoulders and over 13 tonnes (29,000 lb) in weight, representing among the largest land mammals ever, including the African Palaeoloxodon recki, the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and the South Asian Palaeoloxodon namadicus.
Tusks of "Mammut" borsoni from Greece, which are the longest tusks ever recorded. 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 ...
The tusks which presumably earned him his name were about seven feet long (213 centimeters) at this time. [1] By 1922, he was touted as "The Meanest Elephant" [ 3 ] as well as "the largest elephant ever in captivity", though at 10-feet-2-inches tall (3.1 meters), he was seven inches shorter than Jumbo .
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.
Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...
Since elephant tusks continually grow, they can be used to determine the age of adult elephants. ... Furthermore, heavy poaching of “big tuskers,” male elephants with large tusks, removes them ...