As for Botswana jumbo in general, at press time, Debbie Peake of The Botswana Wildlife Management Association said 96 elephants had been taken as of August 22. A whopping 77 percent of those elephants weighed in excess of 100 pounds total weight (e.g., 50 pounds a side), she said. No word was available yet on particularly big ivory, other than the Neal ivory mentioned above.
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