Gentlemen,
a few days ago I started a thread about an elephant being taken that weighed 115,3 pounds. It is official now that Kai-Uwe Denker took an elephant last month with his german client in the Nyae-Nyae-Conservancy (Bushmanland / Namibia)which weighed 115,3 geman pounds, which is equivalent to 128 lbs !!!! Must be the biggest elephant shot in the last 2 decandes all over Africa. The other tusk was broken with an infected nerve which weighed a mere 8 kg ( 17,6 lbs)

Regards Kamaatu

Amazing, hope we can get a picture sooner or later...
Are the densities of broken tusked eles dependent on the type of soil/rocks or is it just a matter of luck (lack thereof)?

The same client took another elephant a couple of days later weighing 89,9 and 85,7 lbs. I must be doing something wrong.

Damn!!

The congatulations are through gritted teeth

kamaatu,

Nope. Not in the last 2 decades. That is, if you mean the last 20 years. In March of 1987 Roberto DeCesare of Switzerland took his 146 pounder in Tepi with us. That same year Ray Petty of Houston took a 144# in Gambella with Mattanovich. Another that comes to mind is a single tusked # 133 taken in the Summer of 1989 in Gura Farda. Nothing over 102# was taken in the early 90's. The we were shut down and the Sudanese and local poachers got the rest!

Rich Elliott

Kaamatu, here's a picture of an etosha bull elephant with severely broomed back tusks. I heard that the minerals there were responsible for brittle tusks. Is this common in Ethosha and elsewhere in Namibia? Bobc

Yes, at least insofar as Northern Namibian elephants such as those found at Etosha are concerned. The ranger station at Okaukuejo has dozens of tusk fragments on display.

But I am told that Bushmanland has big tusked elephants.