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I remember to have seen in the National Museum of Nairobi the Ahmed's tusks, as well as his skelett and a reconstitution of him... Ahmed being perhaps the most famous elephant to have ever lived in Kenya during the XXth century (1919-1974), because of the size of his tusks, precisely...
Quote:Homage to Ahmed, lithograph by Robert Bateman  *This image is copyright of its original author Ahmed at the Marsabit national park in 1963. (11-20-2017, 12:46 AM)YSpalea Wrote: I remember to have seen in the National Museum of Nairobi the Ahmed's tusks, as well as his skelett and a reconstitution of him... Ahmed being perhaps the most famous elephant to have ever lived in Kenya during the XXth century (1919-1974), because of the size of his tusks, precisely... He was a incredible Elephant 
Exist an already thread on this topic: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-the-hea...phant-tusk
I merge it.   (12-05-2017, 04:39 AM)epaiva Wrote: Incredible African Elephant A living monument of ancient times when the planet was inhabited by gigantic beasts! Probably only the head of this tusker weight more than 2 tones... (normally the head of bush elephant is about 1/3 of total body mass due to extremely massive skull).
@epaiva :
About #52: Absolutely astonishing elephant ! A living, placid, monument walking on the open african savannah. As you say @Wolverine a living relic of the pleistocen period, survivor of the prehistorical times. I hope that he is discreetly, but permanently, protected as "Ahmed" (#48), the famous kenyan elephant, was. 
It could bring us a good example about how Loxodonta atlantica looked like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxodonta_atlantica 
Tuskers from South India..
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Mystery about this impressive big tusker's identity...
From "Africa Adventures". A tribute for an other famous big tusker Isilo ! In the Zulu land... From "Lion mountain tv".
@Spalea Nice find!
The first big tuskers is Masthulele, from Letaba region in Kruger National Park. Data on his tusks: Left Length (cm) 234cm Mass (kg) 51kg Circumference at Lip (cm) 49.5cm Right Length (cm) 245cm Mass (kg) 54kg Circumference at Lip (cm) 49.5cm Taken from Tuskers of Kruger: http://www.tuskersofafrica.com/tuskersn/masthulele.htm
@Ngala :
About #59: Thank you ! I confess to have discovered by chance the video about Masthulele. As concerns the tribute about Isilo, perhaps it is an illusion, perhaps I get abused by the first pictures of the video (between 0:30 and 1:00 in particular), but the tusks seem very big in relation to his body (Can he be such a big tusker before being still young or completely adult ?), I don't know... |
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