The world as I see it
You may look at these photos and think (as I did initially) that it is two elephants mating. But it's not. Our guide at Wild-Eye explained that it is actually a dominance display from one bull elephant to another. He said that males will usually practice this behavior especially when swimming in large bodies of …
I don't know if these wildebeest were fighting or if they were just playing, but they were tussling for a while in the dirt.
The Cape buffalo is one of the African "big five" animals (the others are lion, leopard, elephant and rhinoceros),. They were identified this way by big-game hunters, and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot. Now it is widely used by safari tour operators. I found an interesting article about …
These two elephants came together and all I could think was that they had some sort of an elaborate greeting.
Elephants use dirt as sunscreen. ... When coming out of a bath in a river, elephants will often throw mud on themselves as a layer of protection. And when calves are sleeping, adults will often stand over them to cast shade and protect them from the sun. Every day we would see the elephants kick …
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