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A Tuskless Matriarch leading the way in Tsavo East National Park In Shimba Hills National Park Over the last number of years, it has been widely noticed that elephants in the Tsavo ecosystem seem to be growing into adulthood with much shorter tusks while some others have no tusks at all. A common question I am asked is; where are the mighty tuskers that once roamed Tsavo? A very viable question which in reality is open to interpretation, but for now, deserves an answer based on scientific research, historical statistics and future predictions. Quite typically, we can easily assume that most large tuskered elephants have been decimated by human harvesting. Meaning, they have been killed for either sport, consumption or commercial poaching. But will we ever see these majestically armored elephant specimens in the future? Animals have been killed by people for food, clothing, medicine, ornaments and the like from the moment mankind began. The most sought-after more often tha...