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Your Daily Elephant: Tusk & Palm Tree

Landscapes are made even more amazing by the landscapes of the bodies of the creatures who move through them.

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

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.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill