Growing between 10 to 13 feet tall, it is a rare type of elephant – positively prehistoric looking – known as a Super Tusker. “My first encounter with a big tusker was here in Tsavo National ...

But regulated or not, it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to kill a big, beautiful animal that ... The death of this tusker also means money, some of which filters back into the ...

In 2017, poachers killed and mutilated a big tusker named Satao II who was nearly 50 years old; one of the creature's tusks weighed 114 lbs. (51.5 kilograms) and the other weighed 111 lbs.

Tim the Big Tusker was a familiar sight in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. AFP NAIROBI－Kenya has lost a celebrated male elephant that used to roam in the country's southeastern plains ...

A massive elephant "big tusker" was caught on camera digging into the ground with its impressive tusks in this rare encounter filmed in South Africa's Kruger National Park... Harry scores ...

The first elephant lost in the recent wave, Gilgil, a 35-year-old who was killed in September, was one such big tusker. Singling out elephants like Gilgil, Ms. Moss said, “takes away the natural ...

Malingi brakes suddenly. “That’s him – that’s him! You see?” A big tusker stands beside the road, as though waiting for us. His body is mud-caked, his left ear notched. His tusks scythe ...