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I liked this simple portrait of this elephant, in a very clean and simple setting. It was a gift to get the three layers of yellow, green and blue, ordered from warm in the foreground to cool in the background, with a bonus bird.
Amboseli, Kenya
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This is the same young bull who came to drink out of the swimming pool at Elephant valley Lodge on Friday evening...
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A large bull Elephant taken in Sabi Sabi South Africa. He was huge and at first was showing aggression at our presence.
Asian elephants and their mahouts (elephant trainer/caregiver) on the Mekong River in Laos. It has been estimated that the country had well over a hundred thousand elephants over a century ago. In fact, the old name for Laos was "Lan Xang," meaning "land of a million elephants." The country's previous flag had a three headed white elephant on it (a traditional symbol of strength and unity in Lao culture). Today, due to poaching and habitat loss, the elephant population numbers less than a thousand. Conservation work is being undertaken by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) as well as independent elephant sanctuaries such as this one. Ironically enough, there is a fundamental disagreement between the WWF and these elephant sanctuaries in their approach to conservation. WWF accuses these sanctuaries of exploiting elephants for tourism purposes, while the sanctuaries feel that putting elephants in a protected area is impractical and ultimately a losing battle as poaching and habitat loss continues to take their toll on the population.
An elephant drinking at the waterhole at Ivory Safari Lodge, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Africa.
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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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Elephants eat tall grasses, but the portion consumed varies with season. When the new growth appears in April, they remove the tender blades in small clumps. Later in the year, when the grasses are higher than 0.5m they uproot entire clumps, dust them skilfully and consume the fresh leave tops, but discard the roots. When grasses are mature in autumn, they clean and consume the succulent basal portions with the roots and discard the fibrous blades. From bamboo they eat seedlings, culms and lateral shoots. During the dry season from January to April, they mainly browse on both leaves and twigs preferring the fresh foliage, and consume thorn bearing shoots of acacia species without any obvious discomfort. They feed on the bark of white thorn and other flowering plants and consume the fruits of wood apple, tamarind, kumbhi and date palm.
The scene on the beach at Piedras Blancas at the southern reach of the Big Sur coast is hard to describe, so here's some video.
The little ones are this years pups, most of them weaned and just about ready to try life in the ocean. There are only a few adult cows left on the beach right now, and the dominant bulls do not leave them in peace. Pups do occasionally get crushed in the melee. There are plenty of younger bulls hanging around trying to sneak a snog with a cow.
The seals lead fascinating lives. Caroline Casey and her team at UCSC have worked out how bulls signal with vocalization. Here's their paper:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.150228
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ths red color of the elephant and the green of the nature framing work quite good together, i think... Addo NP, South Africa
There is one other Electric Bus in Dumfries & Galloway - this Mellor Sigma 7 (Re-badged Wisdom Bus) with Galloway Community Transport. New in late 2023 it didn't actually see any use for nearly 12 months due to the lack of suitable charging points and issues with its software! As can be seen from the green mould, it doesn't seem to get much use even now, especially as the service it was intended for is no longer run by GCT - confirmed by the almost complete lack on any images of it online. It was, of course, bought with a large grant of £225K - yet another example of the public sector spaffing taxpayers money up the wall in the pursuit of idiotic green nonsense.
Elephant are in decline in Africa, no doubt about it. Tanzania has lost 60% of its elephants in just 5 years; that is catastrophic. The problem is not too bad in South Africa where overall numbers remain high but the drought had pushed them further north and they remained elusive to us.
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