Tough Tusk

Tough Tusk is a character featured in the 2000 Disney live-action film Whispers: An Elephant's Tale.
==Background==
===Personality===
Tough Tusk is a large male (aka a bull elephant) whom Whispers and Groove encounter across a forest. As an herbivore, he is capable of eating vegetation from the trees that he finds along the way. He is also shown to be independent, which is indicated when an elephant asks him if he needs help, only for him to say he can get food by himself. However, when it comes to knocking a tree with someone nearby and the tree accidentally falls on them, Tough Tusk would apologize unintentionally knocking the tree, such as Whispers, which he never saw him. He is also capable of lifting trees as well as rescuing someone stuck within the tree, although he apologized to Whispers after the tree he jarred almost fell onto him.
===Physical appearance===
Tough Tusk, being a male elephant, is large size having the typical colors of a standard African elephant. Hence his name, the tusks located between his trunk are of large size which he uses to jar trees to help him get food like what real-life elephants do.
==Role in the film==
Tough Tusk is first seen jarring a tree with his trunk trying to get some lunch while Groove and Whispers are walking across a forest. Just as Groove asks him to give her and Whispers lunch, he accidentally knocks the tree onto Whispers, which he thinks that could have been crushed by the tree. As Groove tries to get the branches out of the way, Tough Tusk introduces himself to Groove; he then explains that Whispers ran in front of him and as he plans to help him, the latter asks him to lift the tree trapping him, which he was able to. Tough Tusk then decides to leave just before Whispers continues his goal to find his mother Gentle Heart, only for a confused Whispers to mistake Groove for his mother. He is last seen telling Groove to look at the angle in the sky just before he leaves. He does not appear again throughout the rest of the film.
==Trivia==
*Not counting adult Whispers who is heard narrating offscreen due to the fact that he is always seen as an elephant calf, Tough Tusk is the first male elephant to speak in the film.
*He is the only adult male elephant who is not seen in the territory of male elephants participating with Macho Bull and Fulla Bull respectively.
*He is one of the few elephants who does not appear in herds throughout the film as well as one of the few of them not being seen stalked by poachers.
*Tough Tusk's name was written with a hyphen in the end credits of the film ("Tough-Tusk"), while in the film's closed captions, it was written without a hyphen.
*Tough Tusk's name reflects his appearance of him having large tusks which what adult male African elephants have, compared to the females whose tusks are smaller than his.
Category:Whispers: An Elephant's Tale characters
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Category:African characters