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NitroX
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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: AspenHill]
#68007 - 24/12/06 09:56 PM

Main problem was the graphics were huge in kb size and when that large do not display reliably on the net.

I have reduced them from about 300 kb to about 50 to 70 kb, and shifted them to NE.com. The photo is displayed the same dimension however.

Thanks Ann for the photos,

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68012 - 25/12/06 01:24 AM

Hmmm, I will check them again but they should have been the standard size I always use, 650x400!

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: AspenHill]
#68013 - 25/12/06 01:41 AM

Not image size, file size.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68041 - 25/12/06 08:50 AM

This one is 49kb and still isn't showing!

[image]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/aspenhilladventures/smithsomianele3.jpg?t=1166996816[/image]

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: AspenHill]
#68054 - 25/12/06 01:38 PM

Ann....

The URL is copied incorrectly, should be this:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/aspenhilladventures/smithsomianele3.jpg without the ?t=1166996816 on the end.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: Marrakai]
#68089 - 26/12/06 08:59 AM

Ah, thanks Marrakai!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68770 - 04/01/07 10:26 PM

Shawu
His left tusk was 3.17 m long and it's the biggest ever found in the South of Africa. Thew weight was 118 libras.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68771 - 04/01/07 10:30 PM

Kambaku
Unfortunately, he went out the park and was wounded by a poacher. A game scout named Van Royen, ended his suffer. Weight 142 lbs and it was 2.65 m. long.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68772 - 04/01/07 10:34 PM

Dzombo
Was killed in 1983 due poacher's machine guns. Luckyly they were surprised and jailed. The weight of the biggest tusk was 126 lbs and it was 2.65 m. long.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68775 - 04/01/07 10:59 PM

Mafunyane
Died with 57 years in the north of the Kruger park in 1983. It's master tusk measured 2,51 m. and weighed 122 pounds.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68776 - 04/01/07 11:02 PM

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This elephant died of natural death in 1980, the master tusk weighed 129 pounds and measured 2,64 ms.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68777 - 04/01/07 11:11 PM

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He was youngest of the 7 magnificent and the unico that not "died with the tusk on", since in 1985 it appeared with the 2 divided tusk, probably due to a fight with another male. Esteem that it's master tusk should be about 2,8 m. long and 133 lbs.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68779 - 04/01/07 11:14 PM

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He was greatest of all, measured 3,45 of height. It was found dead to the 50 years of age in the park Kruger in Southafrica. The master tusk measured 2,87 m. and gave a weight of 144 pounds.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68780 - 04/01/07 11:19 PM

This one was hunted in Tamafupa, Botswana, last year by a spanish hunter. The master tusk was 98 pounds and the other one was broken in the middle, anyway, was 57 pounds.
I can ask for calibers used and other info if you need it.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: 470Nitro]
#68793 - 05/01/07 03:54 AM

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Mafunyane
Died with 57 years in the north of the Kruger park in 1983. It's master tusk measured 2,51 m. and weighed 122 pounds.

470nitro,

I see that Mafunyane had a strange hole in the top of his head! It looks like something that might have been made by another elephants tusk. Does anyone know how this happened and how deep it went.

I'd think it must have gotten filled with water when it rained.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: EricD]
#68800 - 05/01/07 04:11 AM

Some excellent photos posted by members. Thanks!

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#68809 - 05/01/07 05:49 AM

The one in my avatar

. Taken in Tamafupa (Botswana) in 2003 with my Remington 700 416 Rem. The heaviest tusk is 65 pounds.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: EricD]
#68810 - 05/01/07 05:53 AM

Quote:

...I see that Mafunyane had a strange hole in the top of his head! It looks like something that might have been made by another elephants tusk. Does anyone know how this happened and how deep it went.....

I think so. I've seen elephant skulls before, with a hole like this, but in different places. A fight beetween animals like those, should be amazing to see.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: 470Nitro]
#68816 - 05/01/07 06:38 AM

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Quote:

...I see that Mafunyane had a strange hole in the top of his head! It looks like something that might have been made by another elephants tusk. Does anyone know how this happened and how deep it went.....

I think so. I've seen elephant skulls before, with a hole like this, but in different places. A fight beetween animals like those, should be amazing to see.

I guess the name for this procedure would be: "Tusk Administered Bush Lobotomy"!

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: EricD]
#68850 - 05/01/07 02:30 PM

My guess is that it probably wasn't caused by a fight at all. I personally think there's a very good chance it was caused by a weighted spear laid by a poacher. - The Elepant museum in the KNP has a couple of examples of these things on display. It's a bloody great spear head weighted with a large rock and hung up in a tree. As Mr Big Ears walks under it, a tripwire is set off and the weighted spear falls and penetrates the skull or spine.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: ozhunter]
#81527 - 30/06/07 09:20 AM

470NE posted photos of the so called Magnificent Seven from the Kruger. I have photos of some of their clean skulls and tusks but I don't know how to up load them...
The hole on top of Mafunyane's head was 10cm in diameter and extended to his nasal cavity, enabling him breath through it.

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: ozhunter]
#81651 - 02/07/07 02:11 PM

ozhunter

Thanks again for that photo of your own. A great photo of a great tusker with a very unusual colour differentiation between the bull and the green undergrowth.

Any idea of what weight the tusks went? 70 - 80 lbs perhaps?

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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#81676 - 02/07/07 05:55 PM

Nitro,
The Ele has the colour of the Tsavo red soil and I estimated it to be around 80lbs but a PH reckoned over 100lbs so who knows?
It made the Toyota RAV4 look awfully small at fifteen meters..
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Re: Photos of large tusked elephant wanted! [Re: NitroX]
#81894 - 05/07/07 07:05 PM

I found this one, in Moz, next to the border when stalking plains game. The camera was a common pocket one. He was all by himself and never knew about us. I've never seen a dead one, can someone estimate the weight from this poor angle?

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