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Lisbeth,
Looking at the older pictures (2008/2009) you can see he broke his left tusk somewhere in the past, but the tusk was not really damaged in a bad way and is growing well like his right tusk. Nice to mention that Nan sent me the first pictures of him long long time ago when he was not recognized by the "experts" .... Later on I received more pictures of him , oldest ones are from 2008, so we are "following" him now for about 8 years. :-) :-)
Lisbeth wrote:Did he break his left tusk once upon a time or has it grown like that, shorter than the other?


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These picture, made two days ago, September 26th do show KUMANA. It's clear he is very old. It's great to have these beautiful pictures of him.
I asked someone to estimate his age and probably he is over 60 years old....

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Stunning pictures ^Q^ ^Q^

He is very old :O^


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Also that other one seems to have a couple of robust tusks even if not very long \O


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Ja, very old! O-/


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Must have lots of stories to tell! \O


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hello Kumana 0/*


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We saw Mandzemba near Shingwedzi on our recent visit September 2016 .

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well done okie ^Q^


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Still no tusker for us on this trip :-(

But were chased by 2 young bossie elephants :evil:


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