The world as I see it
I learned a lot about elephants while I was in Africa and came away loving them even more. To see the bond between a mother elephant and her calf is amazing. There was a very interesting article in the Washington Post about the elephants in Amboseli. Rather than repeat everything in this post, you can …
At the end of our second day in Amboseli, we watched a herd of elephants in the marsh as the sun started to set. As the sun went down, they started leaving the marsh to head back "home."
You may look at these photos and think (as I did initially) that it is two elephants mating. But it's not. Â 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 …
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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