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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I knew Tolstoy for many, many years and filmed with him. He's one of the few Big Tuskers that we call a Super Tusker. They are bigger than an ordinary Big Tuskers, which are very large ...

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 ...