Podi Poottuwa (‘the small crossed one’) was a Yala cross-tusker that followed Maha Poottuwa; his left tusk crossed over his right. He grew into a fine tusker and became famous around the 1970s. He was shot just outside the park boundary at Pattiyawala; wildlife photographer Lal Anthonis dates the killing to 1987 and later gave evidence about it in the Tissamaharama Magistrate’s Court.