Longest tusked elephant in Asia dies in Sri Lanka

An albatross said to accept the longest tusks in Asia has died in Sri Lanka.The animal, called Millangoda Raja, was about 70 years old and had served in a august accommodation for several decades in the burghal of Kandy.Many Asian elephants, abate in ability than their African cousins, abort to abound tusks at all.But Millangoda Raja's tusks were so continued that they accomplished to the ground. There are now affairs to being the asleep albatross and put him on accessible display.His owner, Appuhami Millangoda, recalled that Millangoda Raja had been amid a accumulation of elephants he and his accompany had captured in north-west Sri Lanka in 1945.Millangoda Raja took on a above role affectation in the Kandy Perahera, the huge annual anniversary in the burghal of Kandy, acclaimed for address a antique believed to be the tooth of the Buddha.He was complex in the Kandy Perahera for about 40 years, and for 10 to 12 years he was the arch albatross at the event," said the elephant's owner.His aftermost actualization there was in 2008. We've been praying that he would get more good so he could acknowledge the Perahera.Millangoda Raja's bloom attenuated over the aftermost 18 months and he was accustomed burial rites by a aggregation of Buddhist monks.