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For the Macro Mondays theme “Holiday Bokeh”.
"""Happy Macro Monday everyone!!"""", says this little blue elephant ;-)
Elephants in the Tarangire National Park, Tanzania
I take pictures because I like it, not because I am good at it.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
If you only visit 2 continents in your lifetime, visit Africa, twice.
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Taken Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I spent four consecutive days within the park which provided an amazing variety of wildlife.
"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
David Attenborough
Let's hope not.
Young male elephants, in the same herd, will interact with each other at a relatively early age. As they get older they will play-fight with other young males of a similar age from other families.
They learn their own strength, build knowledge and develop the skills which they will need as mature males. When they reach about 12 to 15 years of age, they will leave the family and drift alone or join other families and later form groups. (Shingwedzi, Kruger National Park, RSA)
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Elephants at waterhole, Etosha - Namibia
The elephant herd quickly arrives at the waterhole and occupies the best drinking spot. Other animals stay away when elephants drink water. Elephants bathe and cool off in the waterhole and all disappear as quickly as they arrive. It all goes quickly and only takes a few minutes.
"It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about."
Quote - Seth Meyers
Kruger National Park
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At first, baby elephants don't really know what to do with their trunks. They swing them to and fro and sometimes even step on them. They will suck their trunk just as a human baby might suck its thumb.
By about 6 to 8 months, calves begin learning to use their trunks to eat and drink. By the time they are a year old, they can control their trunks pretty well and, like adult elephants, use their trunks for grasping, eating, drinking, bathing.
Wikipedia
An elephant having a dust bath (also called sand bathing), with the purpose of cleaning skin, and removing parasites.
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Indian Elephant
Elephas maximus indicus
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Macaranga tanarius
Macaranga tanarius is a plant found in South East Asia, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia. It's commonly seen as a pioneer species in disturbed rainforest areas. Easily recognised for the round veiny leaves. In Australia it naturally occurs from the Richmond River, New South Wales to Cooktown in tropical Queensland. (Source:
Wikipedia, Macaranga_tanarius, CC BY-SA 3.0)
No long explanations needed for this image and sorry for using an overused title, but it does seem so appropriate. Taken in the Moremi Game Reserve by the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
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“By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair”
Persian Proverb
tribute to gregory colbert
Elephants Play-fighting.
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Mala Mala Game Reserve
South Africa
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With the water being low in the Sand River, elephants feed on the grasses in the middle of the river and then cross over to the other side to continue on their journey.
Elephant at Sunset.
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A small elephant herd on their way to somewhere :-)! This photo was taken in the Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa!
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped wood frame and tin clad building, constructed in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey. Lucy was built with the purpose of promoting real estate sales and attracting tourists to the area. Today, Lucy remains the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America.
When Lucy was built, Margate City was the southern end of Atlantic City NJ in an undeveloped area without buildings or even roads. Access to the area was by boat only and the elephant was the only thing you would see as you sailed up the coast. For a sense of scale, see the children lined up at the bottom for a class photo.
Shot in infrared with a Kolari blue ir filter