By climbing trees they had had a fairly good view of the herd, which they described as numbering several large tuskers and a great many cows and calves.
Once the poachers have killed off the big male tuskers, they turn to the younger males for ivory.
If I came across a sleeping male tusker boar in the wild, I would definitely leave him sleeping.
Join the elephant herd, and see Botswana's Okavango Delta from the back of a five-ton, 10ft-tall African tusker.
The animal is not set because it is enjoying the attention of its excavators, and it is probably the tusker's finest hour.
Tusker is said to be the power that created and can destroy the world.
He was known as a "tusker" because his tusks were so long that they almost touched the ground.
As a result, a hunt was launched to capture the tusker in 2006.
