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| Satao. © Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone 2014 |
Kenya’s biggest elephant killed by poachers
... Satao, the world’s biggest
elephant, is dead.
... Satao lived in Tsavo East National park in northern Kenya and was
celebrated as one of the last surviving great tuskers, bearers of genes
that produce bull elephants with huge tusks reaching down to the ground.
This news follows hard on the heels of the slaughter of another legendary tusker, Mountain Bull, deep inside the forests of Mt. Kenya.
... I first learned about Satao through an emotional and beautifully written blog post by Mark Deeble,
who described him as being so intelligent that he knew he needed to
protect his enormous tusks by intentionally hiding in bushes so they
couldn’t be seen.
The Guardian Friday 13 June 2014
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| Satao, the world's biggest elephant, with his family in the Tsavo
National Park in Northern Kenya. © Deeble &
Stone 2014 |
You can read The Guardian's full article
here.
