Kabila, also called Thani Dalaya (‘the single tusker’), is a young bull of the Sithulpawwa area of Yala. In June 2017 he was reported to have fatally wounded Thilak, Yala’s oldest tusker, in a territorial fight; local environmentalists said it was rare for an elephant of about 20 to challenge so large and senior a tusker. The post-mortem found deep wounds probably caused by a single tusk, but one writer noted that nobody had witnessed the fight and urged caution about blaming him.