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RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-23-2020
Marlon du Toit: " At the feet of a giant "
RE: Elephants - Shadow - 05-24-2020
This was funny to watch, teenager elephant teasing angry hippos :)
Description from uploader: "This particular water hole is the territory of 2 female hippos, who live/sleep in the water all day to protect themselves from the hot sun and come out at night to feed. On this particular day, they were already pretty pissed off, as the elephant herd decided to disturb their sleep and come to the water hole to drink. They had eventually resigned themselves to the fact though and just keep a close watch, occasionally opening up their mouths as an intimidation technique. Except one teenage elephant -Millennium- took it a couple of steps further...he loves teasing the hippos by frothing up the water nearby and splashing them. It was so funny to watch the whole event unfold..."
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-25-2020
Jens Cullmann: " ... 'Spontaneous encounters like this one remind us of how intelligent elephants are and capable of assessing who and what is a real danger. They are capable of interacting with people at meaningful and non threatening levels. A sense of wonder! So, what happened there and why: ..... Seconds after I stopped the video and backed off a bit this elephant bull started to eat the leafs and branches of the tree where I was sitting underneath, before he arrived. He was just interested to get to the tree where I was sitting to feed.
Some further explanations:
As you can see, the elephant has a collar with a GPS transmitter. Some big elephants now have such collars in Mana Pools National Park. This is to show that this is a special and monitored elephant. Elephants do not adhere to any park or country borders. There is a hunting area next to Mana Pools and it is intended to prevent the iconic elephant bulls from being shot or poached. ."
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-25-2020
Mark Drury: " Another beautiful Amboseli family. "
RE: Elephants - Pckts - 05-26-2020
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-27-2020
Zhayynn James: " A trio of elephants beat the heat and have a fun time playing in a pond. This pond is a big draw in summer when all other water sources dry up and animals like elephants and tigers frequent the pond to drink and cook themselves. "
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-30-2020
David Lloyd: " Family Life
Maasai Mara 2019
I’d not long acquired a little OSMO Pocket video camera, and I’d barely gotten to know how to use it and then this happened.
See how the good custodians bring the little one back after he spied the new camera. "
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-30-2020
Jens Cullmann: " ‘Powder room’ ... You wouldn’t think elephants need sunscreen with such thick skin, however, they do. They throw dirt on their backs and also use mud to protect themselves from the sun.( Mud also works to cool them down and protects them from insects) . "
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-30-2020
Wim van den Heever: " Sometimes you need a bath a dust bath ??? This reminds me of some of those teens I’ve seen vaping.
The okes just disappear in a cloud never to be seen again LOL "
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 05-30-2020
Jens Cullmann: " ‘Hairy business’ Guess who owns this pretty hairy eye? These long lashes protect from dirt, sand, insects and sun; curling them won’t help in the wild. "
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 06-01-2020
David Lloyd: " The Story Behind the Picture
Matriarch, Maasai Mara 2011
Today’s post is something a bit new that I’ve wanted to do for a long time, that is to present the original straight out of camera raw files (sooc) alongside the final rendered versions.
The story behind this picture is represented here by four pictures: the final renditions, the final crop on the raw file, and the original raw file as the camera captured it, uncropped, untouched, straight out of camera. I hope these may give some idea of my thought processes behind taking this picture. For this particular one, I include the colour as well as the b&w one.
For all my pictures I choose to eschew Photoshop, favouring Lightroom instead and only, as I’m much more interested in honouring the scene as much as possible than to embellish it with something that was not there or not rendered by the camera. My internal rule is to keep everything to no less than 80% of the original raw file. Occasionally I may sneak a bit under for the crop aspect, but never by very much.
This was taken in the days before flip out screens. I used a 35mm lens on a camera on an upended monopod close to the ground and it was pretty much aimed blind. But with a little practice you can increase the keeper rate by a good bit. I’d also discovered a way to have elephants advance, rather than to chase them. It was me, my driver, and the elephant. Her family was a little way off, catching up.
The grass stems were the perfect balance to the elephant wandering out of frame. Things walking out of frame have never bothered me. They don’t always have to walk into space as the so called photographic compositional “rule” would like you to believe. In this case, the grass acted as the primary “rule” breaker.
Finally it was whether this picture was more suited to b&w than colour. I will generally favour the one which suits best, not necessarily force a b&w one when colour will do better. In this case I’ve never really been able to decide, so they come out equal and the result is I have two pictures for one.
If this post generates enough interest I’ll be very tempted to make it a regular post topic. Your comments are welcome! "
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 06-02-2020
Beverly Joubert: " As the elephants approach a waterhole, their pace quickens. In the rush to quench their thirst, the herd charge across a parched landscape kicking up a cloud of dust that swirls around them, almost thick enough to conceal the grey giants. For elephants, water is a particularly precious commodity. The mega mammals need to drink hundreds of litres each day in order to support their nutritional needs. As a result, they are highly skilled at finding water even in the driest of landscapes. "
RE: Elephants - Ashutosh - 06-02-2020
A 15 year old pregnant female elephant died in Kerala’s silent valley national park because of injuries suffered from eating a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers as it exploded in her mouth causing burns to such a degree that she couldn’t eat anything. She stood in water for more than a day to soothe her tongue and mouth and died standing in the river with her trunk submerged.
JUST APPALLING. Absolutely shameful. What is even more fucked up is she didn’t do anything to anyone. Pineapples stuffed with firecracker are used as snares to poach wild boar but inadvertently it harms other animals like this docile elephant who being in excruciating pain did not cause any panic.
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https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2020/jun/02/pineapple-filled-with-firecrackers-killed-pregnant-wild-elephant-2150959.html
RE: Elephants - sanjay - 06-02-2020
Human has crossed all limits of evilness.. Pandemic like coronavirus should happen and humans should be destroyed to hell.
I am shame of such people, what make me surprise is, this happened in Kerala, India's most literate state.. disgusting
RE: Elephants - Spalea - 06-03-2020
Jens Cullmann: " ‘how was it using the feet again?’
This baby elephant is still a bit puzzled with getting up. "