Legends with names

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Wild tusker · Yala (deceased) Tilak Remembered as the 'gentle giant' of Yala: a senior tusker of about 55 years, thought to be the largest and oldest in the park, who was calm around…

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Wild tusker · Yala Parakum A lone Yala tusker who joined Sando in the February 2018 fight that cost Gemunu his first tusk.

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Wild tusker · Yala Sando A Yala tusker who, with Parakum, fought Gemunu near the Menik Ganga in February 2018, breaking one of Gemunu's tusks. He became well known to safari visitors afterwards.

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Wild tusker · Yala Nandimithra A wild tusker that ranges between Yala and the forests of Sithulpawwa. In January 2017 Yala rangers had to tranquillise and free him after his trunk became trapped…

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Wild tusker · Yala · c. 1991 – Gemunu Yala's best-known wild bull, named after King Dutugemunu and usually seen in Block 1 and along the Sithulpawwa road. He became famous — and controversial — for walking…

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Ceremonial tusker · 1988 Maligawa Raja The most famous of the Temple of the Tooth's tuskers. He carried the golden relic casket at the Esala Perahera for 34 years, from 1953 to 1986. When…

Ceremonial tusker · 1953 – 7 March 2022 Nadungamuwa Raja A ceremonial tusker who carried the golden casket of the Sacred Tooth Relic at the Kandy Esala Perahera most years from 2006 to 2021. At about 3.2 m…