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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
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Your Daily Elephant

Drinking from the Savuti River, near Chobe National Park, Botswana.

Dailing drinking Savuti

 

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Your Daily Elephant

Old photo from Chief’s Island.  Jabu carrying bark stripped from a tree.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

That wonderful evening light.  Eating grass, South Luangwe National Park, Zambia

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

You lookin’ at me?  You lookin’ at ME!  Watch out for yourself, buster.  Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of elephant photographs.  Roadside attraction, South Luangwe National Park, Zambia

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill