Biggest, Heaviest Tusks & Horns

[Rishi]

(12-07-2019, 12:15 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: Even in Southern India @Rishi, there are decreasing frequencies of big tusked elephants. Veerappan the criminal killed nearly 3000 elephants for their tusks in a two decade time frame. That has reduced lots of males with big tusks and so the next generation of elephants may not even have tusks.

That era is gone now. Those parts are now one of the safest in whole India, 
whatever loss took place isn't going on anymore.

Still, how do so many of them has so huge tusks so commonly! Terai, NE etc. has got huge tuskers too. But tusks that long are really rare.

There's only one known bull with 1m+ tusks in whole Duars. ©Sagnik Mallic

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...but down south you'll see young males sporting those tusks. Especially Kabini. 
©Rahul Radhakrishnan Nair Pandalam‎

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