Google honours Ahmed the elephant 

Ahmed the elephant was the most highly guarded elephant to ever graze on earth.  'The King Of Marsabit', as he was popularly known by many in 1960s when he shot into the limelight, was today, celebrated all over the world and in his honor Google Doodle was decorated with his image.

Ahmed was recognized for his enormous tusks and appeared on major screens all over the world.his tusks were the biggest in Africa, weighing 68.03 kilograms each, and he became the first elephant in history to be protected by a presidential order in Kenya. The King of Marsabit was one of a kind such that he could only climb slopes by walking backwards. 

He was born in 1919 in the woodlands of the Marsabit National Reserve on a mountain in northern Kenya, and he was frequently accompanied by two smaller bull elephants who stood behind him. 

Ahmed was famed for his long tusk and was ever seen with the two bull elephants guarding him and his loot, Due to Ahmed's widespread appeal, school-age children used a letter-writing campaign to write to President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in the late 1970s, pleading with the government to safeguard Ahmed as a national treasure. President Kenyatta dutifully issued a Presidential Decree protecting Ahmed thus becoming the only Elephant to receive the designation of living monument. 

Unfortunately one morning of 1974 Ahmed did not show up from the woodlands. Following a search, his body was discovered, laying motionless against a tree, seemingly sleeping. But he had passed away by then at age of 55. "President Kenyatta declared Ahmed be preserved at the Nairobi National Museum for future generations to be able to admire this giant of nature."

Today, Google honored Ahmed with an elephant graphic that shows travelers seemingly posing for pictures with the animals and a long tusk, symbolising that of Ahmed, with a 'Google' sign.