While I’m out of town for a few days this gentle eye will watch over you.
An Elephant’s Eye: Your Daily Elephant
Tag: Elephant pictures
Ivory: Your Daily Elephant’s Tusk
Tanzania has lost 60% of its elephant population in five years. All because of this, an elephant’s incisor, which looks far more beautiful on an elephant than carved into trinkets.
Your Daily Elephant: Not Pleased with Us
In the early morning light, on safari in the Linyanti area of Botswana, we disturbed an older bull at his breakfast. He’s moving toward us, not pleased but not totally threatening; we’re moving away. Even with everything in motion, there’s this shot.
Your Daily Elephant: Mud in her Ear
Plus a small pebble on top of her head. She’s at a mineral lick in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, home to the Presidential Elephants. There are eight elephants in this picture; they fill the entire background. What looks like a small bite is gone from her ear. Elephants often have ragged edges on their ears, torn by branches and thorns.
Ear, Throat, Neck: Your Daily Elephant
If you didn’t read the title, you probably wouldn’t know just which part of an elephant’s body this is.
A Kiss from Your Daily Elephant
There’s nothing like an elephant’s kiss. 2002, Botswana, Morula gives me a buss on the ear, with an assist from Doug.
Golden Grass: Your Daily Elephant
Ah, that lovely early morning light in Botswana.
The Elephant and the Tree
Patterns on bark; patterns on skin.
Hole in her Ear: Your Daily Elephant
See the sunlight on her trunk, coming through the hole in her ear? As if pierced for a giant earring.
Your Daily Elephant: The Underside of a Trunk
As humans are right or left-handed, so are elephants right or left-trunked, preferring to grab and wrap one way or the other. One of the ways to determine an elephant’s dominant tendencies is to inspect the underside of its trunk for grass stains on either the right side or the left. But before you do this, make sure you know the elephant and, more importantly, the elephant knows you.
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