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All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a long trunk or proboscis, used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. Their incisors grow into tusks, which can serve as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their body temperature.
Image captured at Lake Panic in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. It is an earthen dam on the Mafunyana Creek (named after one of the nicknames of L B Steyn a Park warden. Literally the word means he who eats greedily. Lake Panic is the name that was given shortly after construction was completed about 1975 when, during a major cloudburst, it was feared that the dam wall would give way.
A herd of about thirty elephants, ranging from adults, teenagers and babies came down to the water to drink and bathe. They were so close at times that my fairly short range telephoto lens could not capture the animals in full and I had to resort to capturing close-ups. After a lot of splashing and wallowing the matriarch gave the signal and they all single-filed back into the bush. Amazing moment! I will be posting more of the photographs in days to come. Watch this space!
Unison
All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a long trunk or proboscis, used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. Their incisors grow into tusks, which can serve as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their body temperature.
Image captured at Lake Panic in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. It is an earthen dam on the Mafunyana Creek (named after one of the nicknames of L B Steyn a Park warden. Literally the word means he who eats greedily. Lake Panic is the name that was given shortly after construction was completed about 1975 when, during a major cloudburst, it was feared that the dam wall would give way.
A herd of about thirty elephants, ranging from adults, teenagers and babies came down to the water to drink and bathe. They were so close at times that my fairly short range telephoto lens could not capture the animals in full and I had to resort to capturing close-ups. After a lot of splashing and wallowing the matriarch gave the signal and they all single-filed back into the bush. Amazing moment! I will be posting more of the photographs in days to come. Watch this space!