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@Wolverine :

About #315: I have related to have crossed from close distance a big male Cape buffalo:

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-african...an+buffalo
Just see and read at #2.

But unfortunately not the same encounter with a big African bush elephant. I saw numerous elephants, elephants herds inside the Masai Mara, Amboseli, but from a certain distance (50 meters and more) and as you know, elephants herds are led by an experienced female. Once however, at the Amboseli park, a female should have thought that we followed the herd too closely. She intervened and stood between us and the herds, with numerous baby elephants, making us understand we were too many and had to go away. Softly but firmly.

I remember of course having seen some big males, at Amboseli and Tsavo in particular, but only from a distance. With the binoculars, it was perfect !

I share your admiration towards solitary big African males. Both serene and powerful... We can have the impression they have built up the whole wisdom of the world and having done this, they're only quite silently conversing with themselves. Monuments in motion...

Among the Europa zoos, the Basel one is famous as concerns its African elephants.




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(04-28-2018, 10:53 AM)Spalea Wrote: I remember of course having seen some big males, at Amboseli and Tsavo in particular, but only from a distance. 

Amboseli elephant with beautiful Kilimanjaro mountain as background - the dream image of Africa... You are lucky guy Spalea. Do you plan any new trip there?, I suggest Tanzania and Botswana have even more numerous wild animals than Kenya.

We unfourtunately seems to live in the last decades of the Last Great Megafauna in the world... African mega-fauna. Human population of Africa is exploding much worse than in Asia and is going to rich .... 4 billion people in 2100 from current 1,2 billion... Only Nigeria in 2100 is going to have population of 650 million, more than all countries in Europe together...crazy...The erected apes are going soon to consume everything like grasshoppers...
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@Wolverine :

About #317: I share your pessimism as concerns the future of the wild fauna. The human demography is exploding, particularly in Africa. Close to Africa the European continent is like an old people's home... I'm quite agree with you, unfortunately.

Kenya was a beautiful country, think to the famous Karen Blixen's novel... And as concerns the fauna, I also believe that the most marvelous country, from now on, are Tanzania (always to see again the Kilimandjaro and also the Ngogorongoro crater), Botswana (Savuti...), and also the Namibie. If I could do a last big trip in Africa, I would choose the Namibia (Etosha park)...
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Aps Sinha
Size does matter .... On the road helps you to gauge their huge build vs the road, gypsy in the back, Kaziranga National Park, February 2018
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t vs the road, gypsy in the back, Kaziranga National Park, February 2018
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Came across this video while researching hippo carnivory and it's fascinating. Some of the animals shown are documented omnivores, but others far from it.



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White and black rhino in Botswana

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(06-19-2018, 05:44 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: White and black rhino in Botswana

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Incredible how close they are to each other
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Size does matter 

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Anjan Lal
Here's a Good Example of a Cordial Coexistence Between a Large Bull African Elephant & His Little Neighbours!!!
Amboseli National Park
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Massive Elephant (Bull) Just After a Dip in a Waterhole at Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Tanzania

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This bull elephant is foraging among the few trees at the crater bottom - Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

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Lu Kim Also the majority of elephants there in ngorongoro crater is at lerai forest where they can forage the smoothly and plenty food also to avoid sun light because there is very shade and always males or bulls are common there

That is good info ^^ 
The only Elephants I saw in the Crater where gigantic Bulls, by far the largest Bull elephants I saw anywhere in Africa.


Anne McKinnell Photography
Bull Elephant at Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Although I’m sure there were many more elephants there, we only saw this one lonely bull elephant the whole time. He’s blowing a bit of dust to protect himself from insects and the sun.


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Elephant bull in Ngorongoro crater.

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bull elephant in Ngorongoro Crater
 — at Ngorngoro -Tanzania .


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Melissa Groo

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come - seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”
--Peter Matthiessen

Bull elephant photographed in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania a few days ago. When I first saw elephants on this trip, I wept: with joy and awe to see that they were as magnificent as I remembered; with sorrow and fear to know that each elephant I was seeing in Tanzania was a survivor --for now-- of what has been a devastating few years for them there. 60% of Tanzania's elephants have been poached for their ivory in the last five years. There are approximately 43,000 down from 110,000. 

It's World Elephant Day. Please don't ever buy ivory, and do what you can to educate others. Visit Africa if you are able, and help promote the idea that elephants are worth more alive than chopped up into little trinkets.

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African Bull Elephant at Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania



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The Heavyweight Running Machine..

Woods of Central India.


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" An evening at Kaziranga with two of its iconic residents - The Rhino & the Water Buffalo. "

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In kaziranga not have gaur?
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(07-11-2018, 08:46 AM)P.T.Sondaica Wrote: In kaziranga not have gaur?

They do but very few, I’ve only seen one photo of a gaur in Kaziranga.
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(07-07-2018, 11:14 PM)Pckts Wrote: Saharsh Choudhary‎ 
The Heavyweight Running Machine..

Woods of Central India.


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(01-25-2017, 10:16 PM)Pckts Wrote: Sanjay Shukla

Asian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
Kaziranga Tiger Reserve
Jan 2017

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These two in their preferred habitat type from previous post of @Pckts #205
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(07-11-2018, 08:46 AM)P.T.Sondaica Wrote: In kaziranga not have gaur?

@Pckts Actually proper Kaziranga doesn't have Gaurs. There are some in the forests of Karbi-Anglong hills just south of it...
During the yearly monsoon floods, as most herbivores migrate south towards high-ground, gaurs share habitat with them. But unlike most that come back as the water recedes, the gaurs rarely come down to the plains.
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