After our made-to-order breakfast at the guest cottage, we popped over to the hangar where the Tsavo pilots keep their four reconnaissance planes. As luck would have it, we were visiting just weeks before the four-seater leased plane was being replaced by a fourth two-seater. That meant Debbie, Joe and I could all fly together during a typical day’s flight to survey the park. From the plane we spotted the larger animals: giraffes, Cape buffalo, and many elephants. We thought some looked to be Big Tuskers, but Nick told us they were “emerging” tuskers, younger bulls that still needed a few years of growth in overall size and tusk length to be classified as a big tusker.