In the early morning light. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
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Your Daily Elephant
Thembi twiddling a stick, about to grab it with the tip of her trunk.
Your Daily Elephant
Relaxed trunk, bristly hair. See how the wrinkles fold into themselves – sorta like a slinky?
Your Daily Elephant
Tusks, trunk and eyelashes. Look closely at her left tusk. See the abrasion marks where she pulls grass and branches across it, often holding the end of them with her trunk as she chews on the other – a conveyor belt of mastication.
Your Daily Elephant
Her ear is so pliable and soft on its end that it reminds me of a giant leaf when she holds it like this. A giant leaf with ear hair.
Your Daily Elephant
An elephant path, Savuti area, Chobe National Park, Botswana. Elephants have worn down this path on their way to drink from the Savuti Channel.
Your Daily Elephant
An elephant walks by on her tiptoes. Those fatty pads under her phalanxes (toe bones) cushion her stride, muffle the sound of her footsteps.
Your Daily Elephant
Sometimes the big bulls come so close, this is all that fits in the shot. Savuti area, Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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is actually in this finished manuscript. Now I’ll be looking for an agent.
Your Daily Elephant
In a lovely evening light. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
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