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  • The ears of African elephants are the shape of Africa. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.
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  • Although these youngsters are small for elephants you could feel the power as the spared.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all.  This accounts for its great flexibility.  Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
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  • A full-grown elephant can reach vegetation twenty feet high in a tree.  Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
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  • The elephant on the right is getting worked up.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Done with the mud bath, this baby elephant is leaving the mud hole with its mother.  You can tell it is quite young by the short trunk.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Baby elephants are protected from predation by spending time surrounded by adult females of the herd.  However, who is going to protect the adults from humans?  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Just before sunset this family came to get a drink.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Ears extended can be a threat and/or used as a heat exchange devise to cool the animal.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • This family group came out of the bush to get a drink.  Etosha National Park, Namibia.
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  • This massive elephant was foraging near the safari vehicle.  Although its skin is thick and tough looking, it is sensitive and needs care for the comfort of the elephant.  Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.
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  • The elephant trunk is a very versatile organ.  It can be used to move heavy objects, pick up a feather, and a multitude of tasks in-between.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Sunset on the Chobe River in Botswana, looking over the Caprivi Strip of Namibia.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • The stomping is part of the ritual.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Adult elephants can consume over three hundred pounds of food a day.  They have an inefficient digestive system so over 60% of the mass comes out as dung.  Each elephant can produce a few hundred pounds of dung per day.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Swimming elephants use their trunks as built-in snorkels.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • African elephants are the largest land animals on earth.  They can grow to 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh 14,000 pounds.  This old bull was massive.  Etosha National Park, Namibia.
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  • This young elephant has its ears extended to remind us of how big and powerful it is.  It is used as a form of intimidation.  It worked on me.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Here the matriarch leads her family for a walk.  You can see her mammary glands between her front legs.  It is obvious that she is nursing. Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Two young males meet for a sparing match.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Cow and calf elephants near the Mara River.  Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
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  • Although the skin of an elephants is nearly an inch thick, they use mud and dust to protect against skin parasites and to cool off.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Elephants gather on the island wetlands in at the Chobe River to forage on the rich supply of grass.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • A cow and calf drinking out of the Chobe River.  An adult elephant can suck as much as two and a half gallons of water into its trunk and then squirt it into its mouth.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • The sparing game goes on.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • From the time they are young, male elephants use play fighting to determine their place in the social structure and develop the skills they will need as adults.  As they get older the fighting gets more serious as you can see in the next series of photos.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • These two are all locked up for a pushing match.  Can you tell that the one on the right has his testosterone fully involved?  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Young males sparing.  Notice the “finger like” appendages on the tip of the trunk of the one on the right.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • This mature bull elephant spends a lot of time alone.  Here he is walking along the Chobe River.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.  Photo DSC_8626
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  • When elephants gather at a water hole, other species have to wait for their turn to drink.  This zebra was complaining but to no avail.  Etosha National Park, Namibia.
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  • Just like human children, baby elephants can’t pass up a mud hole.  I couldn’t see anywhere on its body that was mud free.  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
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  • Young males test each other often.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • “If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa.” - John Hemmingway
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