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Wilddog5,
The tusker on this picture is ..to my opinion Boyala. His right tusk is broken and the angle of the "shot" can hide this broken tusk. The last picture at his page at my tuskersite shows a almost similar view on him. Maybe you remember if you did see more of him. As far as I know he is still alive.

adw,
Just looked at your 1st picture , to my opinion this is Nwashinangana , based on his tusks and right ear. I think I can see the two "marks" there like Nwashinangana has. His right tusk is a bit shorter then left one and a bit curved while the left tusks is almost straight.
Don't know if you have a few more pics of him and willing to send them in larger format to me?
tuskers@zeelandnet.nl

Second one is not a named one and "judging" his tusks... potential for longer tusks but not that thick (based on the picture).

Thank you Aat for identifying Nwashinangana. I will send several hi-resolution photos of this bull to you. Many thanks.

Thanks Onewithnature for your kind comments

We saw this nice young man , with promising sized tusks , on 11th October 2012 , at Shitangeni ( just north of Vlakteplaas ranger ) on the H1-7 .
The interesting thing is that he had a big chunk out of his trunk , similar to the tusker Mahrumbini , whom incidently we saw three days later just north of Mopani .



Picture of Mahrumbini following after downloading

Herewith pic of Mahrumbini - he only has one tusk , and also a piece bitten out of his trunk - I suppose by some enterprising croc sometime , somewhere ust north of Mopani , on the 14th October 2012 .




And not so far from him , we were fortunate to see another one of Aat's named tuskers , namely Kaleka - quite impressive that big right tusk . He wasn't very friendly and chased us away with a shaking of his head , etc .

Okie and ADW,
Great pictures of the tuskers

@ Aat
I like to thank you very very much for all the effort for the Tuskers. I was just reading you are doing this for 4 years at a row now
I think there are not many like you doing this and I really hope you will continue. Sanparks should be happy with people like you and should offer you a seat in Letaba

@ ALL
Just updated the Tusker site with:
New pictures of NSHAWANI, MANDZEMBA and NWASHINANGANA and some new "old" pictures of DUKE taken in the mid 90-ties

Esther, thanks for your friendly words , yes I continue and I do this for all tuskermites and because I really like it... and if Sanparks is happy I don't know , never heard anything of them about it.

Hi Aat,

Fully agree with Esther, your work is greatly appreciated and adds such an additional exciting dimension to a Kruger trip! Happy to say that after a two year gap, I will finally be in the park again next week for ten days... ...and have printed out and safely stored in my luggage your central and north pdf´s in the hope that I will be able to spot one or the other of the great tuskers in these regions!!
With a bit of luck I will be able to add some more photos and updates to your incredible database when I am back!!

Thanks!

shivati

@ ALL

I am very very sorry but I am going to stop most activities at this forum for the Big Tuskers.
I will pm the ones who like requests for ID etc or just simply will comment but no other activities anymore.

I am very disappointed that for all the time I spend for so many for ID work and many others things around the Big Tuskers I am not even nominated for any category for awards this year.

I have done this for 4 years at a row spending so much time with pleasure but I have to conclude that appreciation is far away.

I like to ask the moderators to take away the award I received earlier in 2010 because I am really very very very disappointed ....

regards
Aat

Philip`,
Yes Philip .... it is with pain but disappoinment , a big disappointment.
I have spend about an average of 20 hours per week with ID'ing for so many, keeping this updated, a thread with so many views here, answerring many pm's for ID's helping out with delivering pictures for auctions and other things but not even a recognition or nomination

Sad news Aat that you are going to stop most activities at this forum for the Big Tuskers.

Hi Aat

I have the greatest respect for you and always enjoy your contributions to the tusker info bank available to all of us. I have always thought of you as a nature lover who shares his passion with others!
Now I discover I was wrong -- you only did this work for nominations! So now -- no nominations, no Aat!!??
And even the nomination for 2010 is suddenly worth nothing -- just take it back?

Maybe this is all just a joke?

Aat, we enjoy your trip reports, we enjoy your tusker website. Thank you for your contribution. Don't let anybody spoil your day!

God bless,
Friedrich von Horsten

Ps.
I was fascinated to see a lovely tusker at Punda Maria entrance gate -- 30m from the gate. Really lovely elephant. Where do I now post it so that you can enjoy it? Do let me know.
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=welcome#!/p ... 5268841413

Friedrich,
I sent you a PM to explain a few things.

Got several PM's and mails so let me be clear about a few things:
Sure I will not let my tusker friends down and continue with ID's here and the Tusker site.

So Friedrich and others, keep on posting tusker pics here, the place to to be for them and to share with all other tuskermites.

(I am just not doing any other extra things anymore and for now and future I am not interested in any nomination , being together with my tusker friends is enough. Let me just say that some things are clear to me and that's it.)