Africa's Giant Tuskers

[aat]

100ponder .... beautiful pictures !! It's hard to find these pics and also hard to find contact persons in the other african areas.
Really great Big Tuskers

[100ponder]

Here are photos of an elephant called Tim ( sometimes "Gentle Tim" )

I suspect he died a few years ago.

The photos are off internet with un-clear/no info about photographers or organizations publishing them on internet.

Gerrie.

[100ponder]

I have found a number of photos of giant elephant tusks ( mostly hunting trophies ) - I will publishing them here as a token of appreciation to the elephants roaming the unprotected African bush normally not visited by tourists.

One request though - let us not turn this topic into a anti-hunting debate, I simply want to share the giant tuskers of yesterday to give a little insight into the elephant populations of the past.

Here is a photo of a hunter named Jerome Phillipe ( Photo appears to have been published in the Africa Hunting magazine ) with a statement on internet that the hunting took place in the Congo - no further detail.

[Lisbeth]

One request though - let us not turn this topic into a anti-hunting debate, I simply want to share the giant tuskers of yesterday to give a little insight into the elephant populations of the past

[Lisbeth]

Those tusks are really big

[nan]

what a magnificent Tim... gentle Tim

[Flutterby]

Where does Gentle Tim live?

[Richprins]

That thing is HUGE!

Their ears seem to be bit smaller up North?

[Toko]

Tim was in the media last year, might be still around (Amboseli)

He was born in 1969

[nan]

soon 40

Amboselli... maybe I met him