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Sad news about Gida-Gida aka Nwanedzi

Nice sighting, MM.

Thanks Aat as ever, you deliver.

Very sad news to hear that NWANEDZI has died , his carcass was found near Letaba. He died around 4th of july.

Nwanedzi was a very promising tusker , expected to be a big one in near future. The cause of his dead is not known (yet).

I have seen him last year close to Letaba camp where he was posing very nicely at about 10 meters.

RIP

oups, indeed sad news

I'm so sorry to hear that. What a shame that no-one seems to have photographed him this year too. Is he the one (by a different name) that SANParks recently announced had died?

RIP Nwanedzi.

Salamanda,
Idd Sanparks named him Gida-Gida but he was at my site long before that so I kept the name Nwanedzi

That's it! I didn't recognise the name Gida-Gida. thanks Aat.

@ ALL

Hi Tuskermites

Putting some things together over the last months:

Was able to update Duke and Mandleve's pages with new "old" pictures made in 1991. Very interesting to see younger Duke and Mandleve (carried heaviest tusks so far ever in Kruger). Both are history but great to have this pictures to make their pages even more interesting

Updates for the tuskers of today: Just updated Masasana (getting a better pciture of his ear marks now) and previous many other tuskers like Ngodzi, MaMerle (tusker cow) , Kaleka, Machachule , Mculu and others

Also updated STE (Save the Elephants org) tuskers MAC, Nkombo and Leopold

Nwanedzi died recently, carcass found july 4th.

Added two new ones named Shisha & Mashikiri

Moved Duke to the tuskers of Yesterday

Identified a lot of tuskers posted here or sent to me directly... some could not even say "thank you" , but majority did...


Some answers to questions I got:

No, I am not working for Sanparks but just like to do this.

Why I am doing this ?
I was touched by Tuskers since I met them , it was and is just a special feeling. I felt like doing something for them and set some goals like creating the best updated site about them with the help of all who are in africa and specially in Kruger NP to create a Tusker site maintained by me but "filled" by you to share our interest in these giants. Second but also very important for me is to spread the Tusker virus to activate as many people as possible to help each other to keep the site up to date.
With more then 100 different people today who sent pictures I am very very happy

I love to ID tuskers for you but know that I do this all in my own time next to a fulltime job so I always try to answer quickly but I can't promise I always can reply in one or a few days

So.... time to thank all for the entries and let's spread the Tusker virus around....

Thanks again for all the hard work Aat.

I don't know if any of the Addo elephants have been named but saw this one on the webcam in June. Love the curve of those tusks.

thanks Aat... you are a chief
your site is very, very helpfull and so well done

Aat,

Thank you so very much for all your hard work!!

I'm pretty sure a lot of people are doing celebration dances each time you identified a tusker!!

Hi Att thanks for all your input

Please can you let me know if this is a known tusker was seen in on the H1-1 near Shingambaneni

Thanks

lion queen,
I think it is win-win-win-win-win-win thing.
Getting pictures of more and more interested people for ID and for updating the tusker site makes me happy

ID'ing makes the owners of the pictures happy

Tusker site makes many happy who like to ID the tuskers they have seen and who are interested in general for the tuskers and I know there are many in the mean time

And.... the "work" never stops.... just updated the site once again with updates for Masthulele (3 pages in the mean time) and Ngonyama (not seen that many times)
With Masthulele it is great to see now over 3 pages his devellopment , first pics I have are from 2007, so covering 5 years of his life now.

Can't tell you how much fun and pleasure it is to do this

Radman,
Not known to me and I think this bull van't be classified as tusker , tusks don't look that long / thick to my opinion. sorry for that...

[quote="Radman"]Hi Att thanks for all your input

Please can you let me know if this is a known tusker was seen in on the H1-1 near Shingambaneni

Thanks