It then gored the fallen driver with its tusks then trampled ... a herd of more than 40 elephants roaming near the border with Cambodia. We believe this bull had broken away to search for food.

One of the broken tusks of the dead elephant was found nearby which was stained with blood, the DFO said, adding that the other warring tusker might have also sustained severe goring injury.

Previously, there were cases of tusk removal but rarely do poachers decapitate elephants. There are only 1,500 to 2,000 Borneo pygmy elephants left in the wild in Sabah.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The elephant with some of the longest, heaviest tusks in the world died at Amboseli ...

Rembrandt depicts Hansken without tusks, consistent with the anatomy of female elephants from Asia ... that the great chain of being will never be broken. The shrewdest observers, like the ...

An attempt to sell a tusk of an elephant by a gang was successfully foiled by a team of officials from the Department of Forests here on Friday. Following specific input that the gang was heading ...