Elephants

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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. ."

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