The Kilimanjaro Tusks | Largest Tusks Ever Recorded
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This is a short documentary about the ‘Kilimanjaro Tusks’-the largest modern-day elephant tusks ever recorded. The story behind these enormous tusks is intertwined with the slave and ivory trade of East Africa, but it’s also synonymous with the current plight of African Elephants.
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I have heard from my grandfather the biggest Tusk in India was more than 3 meters from Kaakanakote forest in Karnataka during the British Rule when he was a forest ranger
@@jagdishseshadri2823 Yes, Asian Elephant tusks can grow long as African tusks, but African tusks are heavier.
And this is why discounting crocs over 20 foot in Africa, & 25 foot for salties is dubious, even very large sharks.
Imagine the tusks of African elephants before human poaching
It was not poaching then. The Colonials introduced game laws, some poaching too place but most hunting was done under license to protect the populations. As Natives bred up due to those horrid colonials preventing native wars and banning selling the neighbours to slave traders, many turned to killing off the local animals if they could, selling the meat and particularly ivory & rhino horn.
Tippu Tib was an ivory trader before game laws were imposed, buying it from the natives who killed what they could with their primitive weapons. Firearms greatly improved their tallies, although they did a lot of damage with poison.
Protect the gentle beings
Elephants are not gentle they kill hundreds every year
The problem with the ivory trade, is that many poachers earn more money than from low paying jobs or even being unemployed...and they know that it is wrong. It's part act of desperation.
I completed this video in parts
Couldn't watch the whole at once😢
They are just so beautiful big gentle giant why would someone one won't to hurt them they are God's creatures and they deserve to live 😮😢🎉❤
So do rats. An elephant eating the garden isn't fine in the eyes of the gardener, who is about to starve as a consequence.
Elephants are not gentle they kill hundreds every year
its the greed cruelty and ignorance of inhumans that are responsible for this.
A bit racist. Colonialism actually introduced game laws limiting over-exploitation. The natives often ignored these, an elephant in the garden makes a mess, and the Game dept was often obliged to kill crop raiders to scare them away.
Ivory was just like oil today.....something humans wanted. Animals are just that Animals....not your buddy or friend. That thought process leads to giving machines rights. Get a grip on the real world bub
Look at who buys the ivory, where it ends up and what's done with it! You'll discover nearly all of it ends up in Asia, mostly China where's it's turned into carvings, knife handles, etc..
As expected, A Muslim 🙌🏻💯 Tipu tip ☪️
Not only muslim, leopold the christian king was defeated him and continued and developed more sophisticated ivory trade. 😂😂
Only elephants should own ivory.
~ Yao Ming.
We need to save and protect all of Africa’s iconic animals (Especially forest and savanna elephants, chimpanzees, lions, hyenas, meerkats, warthogs, fish eagles, grey parrots, shoebills, hornbills, eastern mountain gorillas, bonobos, cheetahs and many many more) from poachers, habitat loss and other threats at all costs in the future!
So, with all the talk about the elephant's tusks, is anyone going to mention the real elephant in the room? Is no one going to talk about the enormity of the elephant's ears? Look at the size of those things, they're huge.
Hunting has a very minimal effect on elephant populations. Elephant that have really big tusks are beyond breeding and have passed their genes on. Illegal poaching and growing human populations are the biggest threat to elephants by far!
Kilimanjaro is a region in Tanzania 🇹🇿 not Kenya
Borders on both.
Gentle Giants? 😂
Literally the most violent beings when they're in musth, second only to primates probably
Have we tried replacing ivory with human bones? Is it any less morbid, or just more ecologically sound?
You have my full attention.
All the big tuskers are gone, and the genetics are gone, but keep telling us that sport hunting is neccessary.
Such a evil world we live in hunting wildlife
Tipu tip was a real scumbag.wish I could have invited him to my pigfarm for a performsnce by "king George"
This theory of large Elephants being eliminated from the gene pool causing smaller tusks is not a good one, the larger tusk Elephant would not be evident until the animal was at least 50 years old, by which time any genetic traits would have been passed on, so the theory that these genes are eliminated by large Elephants being shot out is ridiculous, the human population of Africa has caused all large mammals to become concentrated in localised areas due to roads/railways etc causing a poor genetic intermix, this is the problem, while in many areas of Africa Elephant overpopulation is causing severe habitat destruction which is difficult to reverse with present numbers.
flawed
Great point
Common sense tells a different story, the big tuskers are gone, largely due to the fact that sport hunters, when given the opportunity, always choose the bigger tusks, probobly trying to compensate for something🤔
@@brucepoole8552 This is a completely erroneous assumption on your part! CITES insists on a certain weigh/length of tusk before a Elephant can be taken. it should be obvious to anyone that to take younger, breeding males from a population would result in a reduction of quality of the breeding herd, we are now seeing an increase of Elephant that are tuskless, how would that fit into your theory? I suggest you study the parks study paperwork and conclusions before jumping to uneducated comments.
@ how many years has the policy you describe been in use? Too little too late imo, I am speaking of the entire continent of Africa not one herd, in a wide view, the big tuskers have been wiped out.
Some would argue that the largest, oldest tuskers are realistically past their prime having already fathered many calves. If the ivory hunters of the past and poachers of more recent times only targeted the oldest mature bulls, there would probably be a lot more elephants alive in the world today.
@@matthewzito6130 I think poachers did target the older tusker elephants, since tusks grow and mature well into their old age. Even the Kilimanjaro elephant mentioned in this video was described as ‘very old.’
@@AegleCreations I'm sure they do, but poachers also kill younger bulls and cows. They aren't picky because they're hunting for profit and all ivory has value. The same was true for many old-time ivory hunters.
Thats bs.
Older bull play an essential roleei' the social behaviour of elephant and deeply influence the population dynamics.
And they also fight with younger males, which help to release their pent up agression and keep them in line.
Without elder tusker
The young male can be very agressive, causing dammage to wildlife (buffalo, rhino), other elephants and humans
@ I agree that it's important to have mature bull elephants in an ecosystem. However, the bulls described in this video are elderly. They're likely past breeding age and almost certainly not the dominant male elephants in their range. Furthermore, they're living in protected national parks. In fact, the entire county of Kenya hasn't had legal trophy hunting since 1977. The idea that legal sport hunters are somehow responsible for the continued decline of elephant populations in places without legal sport hunting is more than a little absurd.
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And as studies show, nope, they do still breed, they're still dominant, and have a huge impact on younger bulls.
Sport hunting is immoral and still part of the issue, even if far less than poaching, it still has a negative impact and keep the market and demand, even just only by selling the image of it.
Beside, no matter what, we're talking about a critically endangered species that went from 27 millions, down to 415 000, and has amongst the slowest reproduction rate amongst mammals.
And a being that is extrmeley intelligent, enough to suffer from PTSD, grief, depression, or seek revenge.
No matter the isutation, killing an elephant is a horrible immoral act.
Doing it for sport is simply disgusting.
Over killed