Tuskers of Kruger Discussions & Identification

[aat]

ssttttt I Always send them a message before I visit them...

Welcome, Jay.

Interesting thoughts there..aat seems to find them at will!

[aat]

100ponder,
I will continue as long as possible , no plans to stop for any reason. And with the help of many friends it's a joy . More activity here in one week then else.... in 3 months ...well you know all about that...

Hi Aat, Thanks for naming Tsende - he sure is worth being called a tusker. Also thanks to all the tusker hunters for recognizing him as exceptional and sharing your finds with us.

He looks relatively young, maybe not more than 40, so we should see some interesting tusk development in the next 10 to 20 years.
( Aat - you are going to keep your TUSKERSOFAFRICA website going for that long, not so ? )

100ponder.

( Welcome Jay - 10 days without a tusker ! I know what that is like, not nice. Do you know the quote "only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" ? Now elephant are somewhat like that, go and hunt them between 10AM and 4PM around watering points or out on the grassy planes. But when there is plenty water in the veld it is time to start focusing on treescapes and cloud formations.)

[Flutterby]

Welcome Jay, better luck next time in finding some tuskers!

[RobertT]

Saw this on Mingerhout dam road, unfortunately he was other side of river.

And this guy was on H10 just walking down road.

[aat]

Hi RobertT,
The first one is NGODZI , very nice to see him again !!

The second one I can't ID immediately but if it's not a problem for you please send some pics of both to me (if you have large format it's even better)
email: tuskers@zeelandnet.nl



[quote="RobertT"]Saw this on Mingerhout dam road, unfortunately he was other side of river.



And this guy was on H10 just walking down road.

[RobertT]

will wetransfer the pics I have.

[Richprins]

Was he doing 50, Rob?

[Flutterby]

Nice tusks!

[aat]

Robert,

Thanks for all the pictures you sent, I got them all and made it possible for me to ID the second one too.
His name is NHLOWA (I was doubting when I saw your picture as posted here but now I know why.. ) NHLOWA broke a part of his left tusk. I used one of your pictures for the details to show here.
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You can see the big "notch" in his left ear and where he broke his tusk.
Last update for him was November 2015 , so really good to see he is alive and well
Can I use the pics to update their pages ?

will wetransfer the pics I have.

[Alf]

Nice tusker sightings RobertT