Africa's Giant Tuskers

[nan]

glad it was another time

one white and.......

[Richprins]

Some serious rhino horn there too!

100p!

[Lisbeth]

Those tusks are enormous What a waste of elephant-and rhino lives

[Alf]

Wow they are huge indeed

[Flutterby]

Sad to think of the giants that were killed for those tusks and horns!

[Mel]

Back then hardly anyone cared for the welfare of the animals

[100ponder]

Mmmm . . . . . some emotions here.

I prefer to skip the emotion part and rather celebrate those huge tusks. As I stated earlier, we hooo-haaaa the tuskers we follow, but how many times do we go back on Aat's "tuskersofafrica" pages to look at the magnificent seven and others on the "Tuskers of Yesterday" pages ? Slowly those are drifting into oblivion and I bet many of those tusks were part of recent ivory sales and are now floating around Asia as trinkets.

I rather say thanks to the hunters who left us photos of the animals from far-off districts in Africa in a by-gone era where no tourists ever ventured. ( Even today very few if any at all visit the places those hunters went to in search of these magnificent animals.) Now we have record of what was roaming in Africa and of recent, what is still roaming in Africa in areas we ordinary people NEVER will go and visit.

But I will agree, it would be good to have seen those animals "on the hoof" !

[100ponder]

Now for some more magnificent elephants of the past - this time two "4-tusk" elephants from the remote jungles of the Congo.

I believe 4-tuskers were only found in the Congo River basin.

[nan]

those start the massacre.... settlers

interesting picture

[Richprins]

Never heard of 4-tuskers before!