This fragment of one of the two tusks carried by a large male woolly mammoth is a European and almost a world record. The weight of this fragment is 84.8 kilograms. The circumference of the tusk is 66.2 cm, making it one of the largest circumferences ever found in a woolly mammoth tusk worldwide!

Had the tusk been complete, its weight in the living animal would have exceeded 100 kilograms. And to think that this animal carried two of them. The massive creature hauled over 200 kilograms of ivory. Female mammoths rarely developed such large tusks; the tusks of mammoth cows are generally much slimmer and have a significantly smaller circumference.

The English word for slagtand is tusk. Elephants in Africa (African elephants) and Asia (Asian elephants) with exceptionally large tusks are referred to as big tuskers or super tuskers. Examples include an African elephant bull with a tusk length of 350 cm and another individual with an incredible tusk weight of 107 (!) kilograms per tusk. The largest circumference ever recorded for a tusk of an African elephant is 64 cm.

Extremely large tusks in Asian elephants are known from the Royal White Elephant of King Rama III of Thailand, named Plai Hom. A specimen with a length of 265 cm and a weight of 73 kilograms per tusk has been documented. The largest circumference ever recorded for a tusk of an Asian elephant is 56 cm. Thus, our woolly mammoth tusk, with a maximum circumference of 66.2 cm, is truly a super tusker.