Keeping an eye on you whilst I’m gone on vacation. Behave yourselves.
Your Daily Elephant
Tag: Africa
Your Daily Elephant
Old camera, old photograph. An evening drink. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Your Daily Elephant
In the early morning light. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
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
A black pupil and topaz iris stares down at you. A rim of white circles both of his irises, a condition known in humans as Arcus senilis, commonly appearing in the elderly as a result of elevated cholesterol. The condition is noted in older Asian elephants, but no similar survey exists for African elephants. In humans the white ring is caused by low eye pressure. Since this is a young elephant, perhaps that’s what causes the rings around his eyes. Or maybe not; no one knows.
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.
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