Tusker

Closely related to the wild boar (Sus scrofa), also sometimes called a tusker, are the bearded pig (Sus barbatus) of Borneo and Malaya, the crested pig (Sus cristata) of East Asia, etc. The American humorist, Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937), scored his first great success (in 1906) with a book entitled Pigs is Pigs. ❋ Unknown (1978)

They would consume your fallen body in a moment, and I know that a "tusker" would sever a femoral artery and dispatch a hunter or child if it felt provoked, even if that very child had hand fed it that morning. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Professor Romanes gives an instance of a fine 'tusker' which, when badly wounded, was promptly surrounded by his companions. ❋ Various (N/A)

In Ceylon, a "tusker" is a kind of spectre, to be talked of by a few who have had the good luck to see one. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)

Hell hath no fury like a male elephant scorned, a team of park rangers agree as they search the jungles of southern India for a rogue 'tusker' which has killed at least 12 females which rejected him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a spot so far removed from human care that I have seen, a few yards from the tents, fresh tracks made by the wild boar as he has rooted o 'nights; and once, as I sat looking out over the water when the rest of the camp was asleep, a dark shadow passed, not fifty yards distant, going head to wind up the hill, and I knew it for "tusker" wending his way to the village gardens, where the maize was green. ❋ S.L. Bensusan (N/A)

The 42-year-old Indian tusker – called Sony – died two months ago of heart failure and the plan to turn the enourmous corpse into bio diesel was agreed on after a special park task force was set up to work out how best to work out what to do with the body of the prízed symbol of peace and friendship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you have one guy with binoculars, your chances of seeing a tusker are pretty limited and it will take a long time to succeed. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday - a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling tusker populations elsewhere on the continent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Missed out on getting a glimpse of the old tusker who raids the vegetable garden at the Tallayar plantation, though. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bill Powell The tiny tusker, also named Gee Gee, stalked the family's home, thrust her trunk through the window to the breakfast nook and chirped for handouts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In October, when hunters shot a tusker in a cornfield south of Berlin, the wounded animal counterattacked, killing one man and injuring another who'd come to finish it off. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His loyalty to boars stems from an epiphany he had years ago, when he opened his car door and a large tusker he'd been feeding hopped in. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Beagle Project Blog: Me, Linnaeus and a big ol' tusker skip to main ❋ Unknown (2007)

Elenfant has siang his triump, Great is Eliphas Magis-trodontos and after kneeprayer pious for behemuth and mahamoth will rest him from tusker toils. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The tusker, fearing less, keeps his trunk down, and, warned in time by that exquisitely sensitive organ, takes heed to his ways. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Buddha reminded him of a tusker elephant; there was the same impression of enormous strength and massive potential brought under control and channeled into a great peace. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)

"I spent thirty minutes up a tree with that tusker and his sow waiting for me to fall out!" ❋ Alexander, Al (2000)