Mysuru: Nature lovers visit Kabini and surrounding areas of Nagarahole forest reserve to see wild animals from a close proximity. At the same time, animals venture in search of water holes to quench their thirst on a hot summer day.

Wildlife enthusiasts wait for hours and days to get the best picture using their cameras. The wait may be to capture the flight of a bird or predator hunting down its prey.

But in Kabini backwaters, an elephant with long tusks has become the cynosure of all eyes, especially wildlife enthusiasts. Approximately 70 years old, the tusker regularly walks into the back waters to drink water and slowly slips back into the reserve all alone leaving the herd aside. However, the most astonishing factor in its anatomy is its lengthy tusks which are almost 4 feet in length.

Cameramen dance to themselves when they capture from a distance, the moments of tusker’s majestic walk with protruding tusks. The huge tusker which used to move in the herd earlier prefers to be all alone off late. Despite being in the wild, it is admired by many for its “good behavior” as there are no adverse reports against it.

Some wildlife enthusiasts are of the opinion that most tuskers in Nagarahole forest reserve are huge in size and are known for possessing long tusks. Most acknowledge this particular tusker to be the “King of the reserve” in spite of being apparently lonely at 70.