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Biggest, Heaviest Tusks & Horns

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A rare image of Kenya's legendary elephant 'Ahmed', pictured by world-famous Kenyan photographer Mohamed Amin in his natural, free and open habitat in the Marsabit Forest in 1974 - just days before he peacefully breathed his last at the grand old age of 65, resting majestically on his tusks and half leaning against a tree. An autopsy found antique Martini Henry rifle bullets embedded in his body, which suggests that he had long been a target of over-ambitious poachers long before he was accorded state protection. Known to big game hunters as the 'King of Marsabit', remains the most famous of all elephants in Africa. His presence was so magnificent because of his prized tusks that each weighed almost 70kg and 3 meters long, that in 1970, Kenyan President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta conferred on him Presidential protection from the threat of poachers - and was declared a living monument. He was watched day and night by five armed rangers to keep the poachers at bay. Ahmed was a loner and an elusive elephant


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RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Apollo - 03-10-2015, 10:15 PM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Apollo - 03-10-2015, 10:36 PM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Pckts - 03-11-2015, 01:07 AM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Pckts - 03-11-2015, 01:26 AM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Pckts - 03-11-2015, 01:41 AM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Pckts - 03-11-2015, 10:48 PM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Pckts - 03-12-2015, 03:26 AM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Pckts - 03-12-2015, 10:38 PM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Spalea - 03-22-2015, 06:21 PM
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RE: Big herbivores! - Ngala - 08-18-2016, 09:50 PM
RE: The heaviest elephant tusk - Ngala - 03-11-2017, 02:00 AM
RE: Big herbivores! - Pckts - 03-29-2017, 09:37 PM
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RE: Big herbivores! - Rishi - 08-18-2017, 04:48 PM
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RE: Big herbivores! - Rishi - 08-18-2017, 09:34 PM
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RE: Big herbivores! - Wolverine - 11-19-2017, 06:15 AM
RE: Big herbivores! - Spalea - 11-19-2017, 03:16 PM
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