Africa Wild

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

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.

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.

100ponder wrote: 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

Those tusks are really big

what a magnificent Tim... gentle Tim

Where does Gentle Tim live?

That thing is HUGE!

Their ears seem to be bit smaller up North?

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

He was born in 1969

soon 40

Amboselli... maybe I met him