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Your Daily Elephant

Cooling off.  Mud patterns on a bachelor bull, Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

An old black and white photograph.  Elephants and zebras, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

Bachelor bull in the morning light, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

An old photograph of the bachelor bulls at Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana.

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Your Daily Elephant

The Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe.  A lot going on in this photograph.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A youngster, showing development of tusks, which begin to show beyond the lip when an elephant is three – five years old.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

Jabu digging up sycamore roots with his feet.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A collared female in Chobe National Park.  Being monitored for the effect of her mastitis on her young calf.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

The underside of an elephant’s trunk sometimes reminds me of an old tire.  Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

When you’re out in the bush, often this is all you get to see.  Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill