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Mopani
Last update: 17-09-2011 Picture by Lappies Labuschagne
NSHAWANI
NAME
Nshawani is named after the small river south of Mopani (near waterhole Klein Nshawu) in the area where Nshawani has been seen and photographed.
(Nshawani is a temporary name for this emerging tusker just for identification purposes)
CHARACTERISTICS
Almost clean right ear, only a small hole in the lower part of the earlobe, a u-shaped notch in the left ear with a loose piece of skin and just above this notch a smaller v-shaped notch. The left tusk is broken. The right tusk is long and shaped in a classical way. * remarkable body size, stomic looks like balloons at both sides.
AREA
Mopani - Mooiplaas - Nshawu
Tuskers of Africa
Photographed by Aat Vuik
Location: Mopani (S50 near waterhole Nshawu 3)
Date: Oktober 25th 2010
Photographed by Ko en Sophia van Doesum
Location: Halfway between Mopani and Phalaborwa (H14)
Date: April 7th 2011
Photographed by Aat Vuik
Location: Mopani (between Nshawu and Mooiplaas waterholes)
Date: May 17 & 19th 2011
Photographed by Lappies Labuschagne
Location: Mopani (Near Mooiplaas picnic spot)
Date: September 9th 2011