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We came across this guy who I nicknamed Stompie (Stomp Stert) as most of his tail was missing.
Anyway, as with a lot of elephants we met he didn't take kindly to our presence and treated us to a display of his strength which started with this dust shower.
Sabi Sands
Greater Kruger
Mpumalanga
South Africa
the Nairobi Elephant Sanctuary, they rescue the baby Elephant's who's mother's were probably killed by poachers they bottle feed them until they are old enough to feed them self's , then after Five years they return them back in to the Wild to there natural habitat .. they do a fantastic job at the Sanctuary.
Donna, two years old elephant having a kick about at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire, ahead of the sporting extravaganza. #zoo #Elephant #animal #football #unusual #funny #weird #amazing #different
A group of elephants were actively feeding on the trees and bushes in the area and this medium-sized individual appeared to be doing a brief demonstration on how to use one's trunk for the benefit of the little guy.
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African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) charging down a dirt road kicking up lots of dust as she comes. Image taken in Sanbona Wildlife Reserve of South Africa. We were backing up as fast as we could but since I was not driving, I took advantage of the situation and kept a steady finger on the trigger.
This situation developed in very high grass, so high we could not see any Elephants about. When we rounded a blind corner, there were no Elephants in the road. All of a sudden this one came charging out of the bush, unseen before she started her charge, and we frantically backed to give way. She stopped just short of our vehicle but we moved on out of her way and kept backing out of sight.
talk, it's only talk
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I've been looking at the photos I took when we spent 10 days in Zimbabwe back in September 1999, trying to improve them. Then I thought I'd make a collage of some of the photos I took of my favourite animal, the elephant. Hope you like it.
There is a great deal of jockeying for dominance amongst elephants that is revealed only by close observation. For whatever reason, elephants are constantly pairing off against one another to establish dominance. If there are a hundred elephants in a herd, I'm sure there would be an "argument" between the weakest two as to who was # 99 and who was # 100. The most dominant elephant is the one that gets the first dibs at the watering hole, for instance.
Here, at first sight, it simply looks like a couple of elephant calves engaged in small talk en route to the watering hole. But take a closer look – the calf closer to the camera is slightly older, perhaps by a couple of months. It is a bit taller and bigger, notwithstanding the camera perspective. Its body language is more aggressive, with its ears flared out, which is a way elephants posture to look bigger than they are.
The other calf has a meeker posture, with its ears folded to its side. Though they are walking side by side, the smaller calf will let the bigger calf dip into the water first at the water hole, finding another spot for itself that keeps a respectable distance from the older calf.
Tsavo National Park, Kenya.
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Amboseli is heaven for elephant lovers! African elephants fill the landscape: old, young and the just born. You could watch them for hours. They walk around as part of a big herd but this one was unusual in that aspect. Wandering the savannah plains all by itself, it seemed to walk towards a far off herd of elephants. Perhaps it had broken off from the herd and lost its way and had finally found its family! I would like to think that. Sometimes I wish I could read their minds :)
Explored 3rd March, 2015
(Born 16juli2013)
This Zoo had two family groups kept together by the matriarch, all went very well, until the matriarch died last year. One family stood up against the other. A difficult situation for the zoo too, they had to keep both families seperated . Recently one of the families moved to another zoo in the Netherlands.
This was probably the one time on the trip I moved slightly nervously in my seat as this bull elephant headed straight for the vehicle with good pace. I looked across at Lucas our guide and he looked pretty calm with no sign of starting the engine so I took a brave pill and kept taking the pictures.
If you view large you can see the droplets of water from his ear. No crop!
A large bull Elephant taken in Sabi Sabi South Africa. He was huge and at first was showing aggression at our presence.
one of the first elephants i found in the Hoanib riverbed on the latest trip to Namibia.
A magnificient bull, with enormous feet...
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The African bush elephant is the largest living terrestrial animal. Their large ears enable heat loss. The upper lip and nose form a trunk. The trunk acts as a fifth limb, a sound amplifier, and an important method of touch. We came across this elephant with a single tusk on a boat trip in Botswana's Okavango Delta, one of the largest inland deltas in the world. In 2014 the Okavango Delta became the 1000th site to be officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.