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Janeli,
You have seen Masthulele , one of the biggest tuskers at the moment in Kruger
the other ones are no tuskers...nice bulls...


[quote="Janeli"]


I have seen this beautiful tusker about 4km from Letaba on the H9.
I would love to know if he is a known tusker.

These two tuskers were grazing in the riverbed at Letaba. Wonderful to watch them grazing so peacefully.

Bushbuddies,
If you find some spare minutes please send the pics to me...should be nice for some updates...

Thank you very much, Aat!!! I am so glad that we at least have seen one big tusker!!!

I would like to show you 2 other ellies we saw ... just in case we have missed something!

This one near the Nwanetsi Dam on 23 May 2012




This one on 15 May 2012 on the Mlondozi Road




And this one near the N'wagovilla Hill on 17 May 2012
(I think it may be the same ellie???)


Thanks again!!!!!

Janeli... will be back on these pictures later... spent time with something else about the tuskers...

@ All

Like to do what I promised.... at the forum thread for Duke but related to Tuskers

So... Just launched the new section at my Tusker website with LEGENDARY TUSKERS of KRUGER NP

included 5 tuskers where I think they belong in this section... more to add and advise / requests are welcome

One of them is DUKE and since it is just a year ago he died I modified his pages to have a photographic story of his life including new pictures
Oldest picture back to 1991 and latest from 2011 a few months before he died...


Hope you like the new section and Duke's story

links:
Duke
http://www.tuskersofafrica.com/tuskers/duke_001.htm

new section Legendary tuskers
http://www.tuskersofafrica.com/tskmain/tsklgnd.htm

it became nightwork ...but worth to do it...

Hi Aat,

I like the idea of "The legendary Tuskers" ! !

Two questions :-

1] Could any currently live tuskers qualify ?

2] Could tuskers from "other" parks also qualify ?
i.e. iSilu ?

Keep up the great work !

Gerrie.

100ponder,
Good questions ...
I called it Legendary Tuskers of KNP so it is just for the tuskers from Kruger. Otherwis I should mention it Legendary Tuskers of South-Africa (something to think about)
The other question... I will only include tuskers who passed away and deserve a special place because of their tusks (lenght / weight) or popularity.

All the current tuskers will be in the section Tuskers of Today.
A change I will make is to include the STE tuskers in this section like Nkombo... so it will be easier to ID in one section and they are tuskers of Kruger. I will add info that they are collared by STE.

I think the Tembe tuskers deserve their own section bacause they are a special "group" of tuskers with another background.

Hi Latest photo data:

-Taken on dirt road near Letaba
-27 March 2012
-Massive Bull
-Aged, maybe 50 years
-Massive right tusk and shorter, broken left
-Bull must be +- 320cm at shoulder and right tusk almost touches ground

Hi,

I believe this was the same bull just seen earlier:

-Taken on H1-6 between Mopani and Letaba near Twisappel waterhole
-10 december 2012
-Massive Bull
-Aged, maybe 50 years
-Massive right tusk and shorter, broken left
-Bull must be +- 320cm at shoulder and right tusk almost touches ground

-Taken on H1-6 between Mopani and Letaba near klein nshawu waterhole
-10 december 2012
-Big Younger Bull
-Youngish, maybe 30 years
-perfect straight "kruger" style tusk and excellent general condition
-Bull must be +- 300cm at shoulder and tusks prob 1.2 m length

-Taken on H1-6 about 3 km's from Letaba
-18 August 2011
-Average older Bull
-Middle to older, maybe 40 years
-Thick, stright tusks with worn "cutting" groove on right tusk
-Bull must be +- 310cm at shoulder and tusks prob 1 m length and very thick
-have seen this bull often around Letaba and i believe his is often seen by visitors

-Taken on tar road to SHingwedzi coming off H1-6 or H1-7...about 1 km from gate
-02 December 2012
-Big Bull
-Middle aged, maybe 35 years
-Big tusks, right slightly longer and more down facing, left shorter but strighter
-Bull must be +- 330cm at shoulder and tusks prob 1.2 m length
-Bull had a tracking collar around his neck

Dear Aat,
This is not an update - Madeleen (Mads) already did this end of July 2012. Here is some pics of Masasana and Mashikiri that I took when we were in the North:

Masasana 27 July 2012 at (in) Grootvlei Dam


Mashikiri 29 July 2012 at Klopperfontein Dam

Hi BerkiSA,

Real good tuskers you saw !

Number one & two is Kaleka and your last one most likely Riceho.

Cannot ID the other two, maybe Aat can help ?

Gerrie.

BerkiSA,
Hi... I was pointed to your post here for the tuskers you have seen.

About this one: This one is called NGODZI , one of the named tuskers in kruger NP
Maybe for next time you like to ID your tuskers you can use my website about the Tuskers
http://www.tuskersofafrica.com
At the right side (top) you can also download PDF format documents with all the current tuskers of kruger.


[quote="BerkiSA"]Hi Latest photo data:

-Taken on dirt road near Letaba
-27 March 2012
-Massive Bull
-Aged, maybe 50 years
-Massive right tusk and shorter, broken left
-Bull must be +- 320cm at shoulder and right tusk almost touches ground

BerkinSA,
This one is more difficult but almost sure it is Mahlahini

[quote="BerkiSA"]-Taken on H1-6 between Mopani and Letaba near klein nshawu waterhole
-10 december 2012
-Big Younger Bull
-Youngish, maybe 30 years
-perfect straight "kruger" style tusk and excellent general condition
-Bull must be +- 300cm at shoulder and tusks prob 1.2 m length